Description
A free community network that gave residents of Goldmere email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1997 to 2002.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 7 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f13ad5c973de7f5d6f1630aa66713d85fd64b96f2101ff82929217bf5d8599c0- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Goldmere Free-Net Association, Goldmere Free-Net (1997–2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14279.