Lazarus Archive · LZ-04817

NorthwindSnap

Northwind Media, 1995–2000. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 54 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2000.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c1ea79d6e2f538882150592b6e296df69356c032c78d8ae037990b919046605d
Last verified
Oct 4, 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 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: Northwind Media, NorthwindSnap (1995–2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04817.

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