Lazarus Archive · LZ-26081

BeaconSnap

Beacon Media, 1996–2010. Website or online service for Flash.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 49 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2010.

Provenance

Deposited by Crowstead Harbour Historical Society. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
779ee1a2763a09bf4b5befb4d1f94ae4f9e6f9fd1ee08cfd20cba707a8ef5fdb
Last verified
Oct 9, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Beacon Media, BeaconSnap (1996–2010). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26081.

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