Lazarus Archive · LZ-00422

WrenSnap

Wren Media, 1993–1995. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 65 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 1995.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a9f2da1bbe25c949cc20f039201daf349b7ae5379b99c657ffc4730e8e4ec5b9
Last verified
Oct 21, 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 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: Wren Media, WrenSnap (1993–1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00422.

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