Description
A subscription online service with 183 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2017 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
22144e2654eec6b9301835fbd23f82b7185713c6b3028af0a1566af467186707- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-FLASH-5 · lz-swf 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-FLASH-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Flash.
Cite as: Tandem Online Services, Tandem Online (2005–2017). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23995.