Description
A subscription online service with 197 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d9bb6b7c012622022cfa6922608fdcfcd48f0754929e61acde82b78779557dfd- 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 Online Services, HeronNet (2002–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15881.