Description
A subscription online service with 37 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2005 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 6 weeks before the service closed. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Rebuilt from 4 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8cc4dee72c95a437c6228b4aadab737b02493a28a09319a73e557232a23085a3- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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.
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: Cobalt Online Services, CobaltNet (2002–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06450.