Description
A subscription online service with 302 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
af56dd942d6452e2e8b25ec1b9e5bbf46f993ad9a8624a4d3da454af46757d3b- Last verified
- Sep 8, 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 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: Northwind Online Services, Northwind Online (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21248.