Lazarus Archive · LZ-06505

BasaltSnap

Basalt Media, 2002–2005. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 13 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2005.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
16c5ed6c319bd000fdc69e53f7f00cd48a0823adba2df64ba5675d96aa1e2f84
Last verified
Oct 2, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Basalt Media, BasaltSnap (2002–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06505.

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