Description
A subscription online service with 187 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2005 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Deposited by Aldermore Falls Public Library in 2004. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4d35b9d150be647b2cdad32ab514b3eeed67f6479fa25e0e64fd41a9c07c9166- Last verified
- Oct 9, 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: Lode Online Services, LodeNet (2001–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07290.