Description
A subscription online service with 316 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2013 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 6 weeks before the service closed. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 46 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9a9ffdcc0450bcd49e65564b5b441fc32fd05052f20aa60bd6957ca6050c677e- Last verified
- Oct 18, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- 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.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Wren Online Services, Wren Online (2010–2013). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15625.