Description
A subscription online service with 253 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Deposited by Western Ranges Software Preservation Group, from its own collections. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 28 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f90be5d7840fe60385801d8f5fd54ba0a583df2722e2e66e38e4d913ff08d739- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Cinder Online Services, Cinder Online (1999–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10048.