Lazarus Archive · LZ-04468

Quill Online

Quill Online Services, 1993–2003. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A subscription online service with 347 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2003 with thirty days’ notice.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The label reads ‘Work’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
04cde53b9fa798b74c66a688176fa21518c139384deba87b3d96ae2326edb8fd
Last verified
Oct 28, 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 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: Quill Online Services, Quill Online (1993–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04468.

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