Description
A subscription online service with 185 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2006 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. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
907077d8b22ae3c889e0b573536914c56cfc353c23fbc19a4dbb043da02aae98- Last verified
- Oct 9, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- 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.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Gyre Online Services, Gyre Online (2004–2006). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26569.