Description
A free community network that gave residents of Herongate Springs email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1999 to 2008.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8a66e4ec735dc5497ed2e5c053c305ec67078ae7bfb91f7c3322716fc5bb433a- Last verified
- Oct 14, 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: Herongate Springs Free-Net Association, Herongate Springs Free-Net (1999–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13457.