Description
A free community network that gave residents of Whitestead Falls email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1999 to 2003.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
98a96d2edc325462ba715e51d89a7d8bc6e9837e5444b6883dff29aa616cc89e- Last verified
- Aug 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf 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-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.
Cite as: Whitestead Falls Free-Net Association, Whitestead Falls Free-Net (1999–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05023.