Description
A subscription online service with 114 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. All files were recovered; 59 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
677a4de2146e3ea66348c4b92713ad330a004deded71f7bf3ecf55667028498a- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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: Karst Online Services, Karst Online (2000–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13069.