Public Digital Object Record
FWX-000003
Heaven's Gate Website
The Heaven's Gate website is a surviving public website associated with the Heaven's Gate religious movement and its activities during the 1990s. The site remains publicly accessible at its historical domain and preserves a substantial body of material associated with the group's online presence during the final period of its activity.
- Record Number
- FWX-000003
- Release
- Public
- Preservation Status
- In Situ
- Authority
- Forgotten Web Exchange
Visual Reference
Preserved Preview
Administrative Record
Object Registration
- Digital Object ID
- FWX-000003
- Object Type
- Website
- Classification
- Public
- Operational Status
- Active Legacy Site
- Preservation Status
- In Situ
- Creator
- Heaven's Gate
- First Published
- 1997
- Last Verified
- 2026-09-07
- Historical Address
- http://www.heavensgate.com/
- Current Address
- https://www.heavensgate.com/
Historical Record
Historical Overview
The Heaven's Gate website is a surviving public website associated with the Heaven's Gate religious movement and its activities during the 1990s. The site remains publicly accessible at its historical domain and preserves a substantial body of material associated with the group's online presence during the final period of its activity.
Preservation Assessment
Current Preservation Status
The Digital Object remains Publicly Accessible at a currently recorded network location.
Routine Observation conducted by the Office of Digital Preservation has identified the current integrity status as Verified Legacy Presentation.
Preservation status remains In Situ.
- Observing Office
- Office of Digital Preservation
- Monitoring Programme
- Routine Observation
- Integrity Status
- Verified Legacy Presentation
- Accessibility
- Publicly Accessible
Documentation
Narrative Record
Overview
The Heaven’s Gate website formed part of the public Internet presence of the Heaven’s Gate religious movement during the 1990s.
By March 1997, the website was being used to publish the group’s writings and other material while members of the movement also distributed messages through Usenet and other Internet channels.
Following the end of the group in 1997, the website remained online under the stewardship of former members. Its continued availability at the historical domain makes it an unusual surviving example of a 1990s website whose significance derives both from its original content and from the continuity of its public accessibility.
The Bureau monitors the object in situ. The present record documents the continued accessibility and legacy presentation of the website without asserting that every element remains technically identical to its 1997 state.
Document Control
Publication Details
- Prepared by
- Office of Digital Preservation
- Published through
- Forgotten Web Exchange
- Issuing Authority
- Bureau of Digital Antiquities
- Document Revision
- 1.0
- Record Identifier
- FWX-000003
- Last Verification
- 2026-09-07