Lazarus Archive · LZ-26729

PloverSnap

Plover Media, 1997–1999. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 84 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 1999.

Provenance

Deposited by Highfold Public Library. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ac71a5bf4baf898f5f4456e3eb82e608cae11d579ab9d0d8571d3f59dcb879d2
Last verified
Sep 28, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Plover Media, PloverSnap (1997–1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26729.

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