Lazarus Archive · LZ-13625

CinderSnap

Cinder Media, 1997–2000. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 8 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2000.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
68a8ece2388e7e4d852a785f8bdc80a716bf9f49d0e195c2725c442902377fa8
Last verified
Oct 22, 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: Cinder Media, CinderSnap (1997–2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13625.

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