Description
A subscription online service with 370 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2011 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f4847a880dec33eee9d3688f2035cee44ed3b4716b056a2a36fcc4b9bf5349f0- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- 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.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Mosaic Online Services, MosaicNet (2009–2011). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12520.