Lazarus Archive · LZ-15960

WhimbrelSnap

Whimbrel Media, 1994–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 23 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
61af87e49cfd31da6fe1749986463a108aa588e7f87dce38cca3bb9601cd646f
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: Whimbrel Media, WhimbrelSnap (1994–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15960.

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