Lazarus Archive · LZ-05639

TesselSnap

Tessel Media, 2003–2004. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 83 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2004.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
355350d92947b8e46052d1ab83716d7cea39e6b289d77ff0f3bd8aa0f5f782bc
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.

Cite as: Tessel Media, TesselSnap (2003–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05639.

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