Lazarus Archive · LZ-13185

HeronSnap

Heron Media, 2002–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 37 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d2187c831da2b82a02d4836149ed49f41121e206a256d7129a3b8d3badd0a575
Last verified
Oct 16, 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: Heron Media, HeronSnap (2002–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13185.

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