Description
A free community network that gave residents of Riverford Bay email, local news and a public bulletin board from 2003 to 2008.
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. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f6d2b95179ebf6e1b315d863857e65089aa437c0268c161a083f7983bc697070- Last verified
- Oct 11, 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: Riverford Bay Free-Net Association, Riverford Bay Free-Net (2003–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19543.