Description
A subscription online service with 323 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 1998 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
edbae61aacbd0d725775720593dbbcaca896d315885927a5d7e80dcd898b7299- Last verified
- Oct 26, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
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: Nova Online Services, Nova Online (1993–1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19742.