Description
A free community network that gave residents of Bellgate email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1996 to 1999.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fd32ce2dcacd9485d7c9a864d652acb62af868c7709e502127900a59aff7a3ac- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Bellgate Free-Net Association, Bellgate Free-Net (1996–1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23950.