Lazarus Archive · LZ-26984

VectorSnap

Vector Media, 1999–2007. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 16 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2007.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. About 61 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
32fb6c244442ec412fcd607f59e4aaba73436174d82bb08c565a93d3c569c789
Last verified
Oct 22, 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: Vector Media, VectorSnap (1999–2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26984.

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