Description
A subscription online service with 172 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 1998 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
62fbfc8f1a43d6e89d01e7728dc8b5b170531b2dbbbcb426215f04a69e6d4fc7- Last verified
- Sep 18, 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: Alcove Online Services, AlcoveNet (1993–1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14944.