Description
A subscription online service with 170 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 2 weeks before the service closed. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 57 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1dc6a3f8130ac84eb752e0cdb71d06c7cb9acce3be3d2b7d14528e7f52737dc6- Last verified
- Sep 4, 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: Meridian Online Services, Meridian Online (2004–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25726.