Description
A free community network that gave residents of Crowstead Harbour email, local news and a public bulletin board from 2003 to 2005.
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. All files were recovered; 46 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4780b8d5cce95c26c5876d34e77ded8e038583df582016476605c7cfa42261c0- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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.
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: Crowstead Harbour Free-Net Association, Crowstead Harbour Free-Net (2003–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19508.