Lazarus Archive · LZ-09996

MoraineSnap

Moraine Media, 2007–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 57 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
46c83ee5128b5efdf9eb33fb23246f8e8831b19a650ef34e35193c7fecfea89f
Last verified
Sep 24, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
WARC, replayed in the reading room
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.

Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Moraine Media, MoraineSnap (2007–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09996.

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