Description
A webring that linked 222 hobbyist sites about fountain pen, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The disc was scratched but readable after cleaning. About 68 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0092eb6fdd582340ba81d523eb5c87ce958d4869ed27dbef1cda98e22e26c72a- Last verified
- Oct 16, 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: Elias Laurent, The Fountain Pen Ring (1994–1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04668.