Lazarus Archive · LZ-11053

Marlin Online

Marlin Online Services, 2008–2010. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A subscription online service with 242 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2010 with thirty days’ notice.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4babd3971e5bb2b4e7ce155e09ac9b52679dd52b262bd7a93539e4dfc4baf010
Last verified
Oct 14, 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: Marlin Online Services, Marlin Online (2008–2010). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11053.

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