Description
A subscription online service with 218 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. About 63 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6b966f56bd25b417a7ba30acf01c4ed2bceea9baf9d88c6a5eb8a9c4f2a45106- Last verified
- Oct 18, 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: Pylon Online Services, PylonNet (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11513.