Description
A subscription online service with 66 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
38a2ba2ae3435f5b20b9a821c4c367d4f2cd8e535d343bdcb9ecd739d8b5cfa1- Last verified
- Oct 14, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
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: Bluebell Online Services, Bluebell Online (1995–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37681.