Lazarus Archive · LZ-13103

TernNet

Tern Online Services, 1998–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A subscription online service with 14 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 32 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5432a53210b9d9fe501b28694bc8b8624da0b240cb7f1beba18edfa427edcf96
Last verified
Oct 28, 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: Tern Online Services, TernNet (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13103.

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