Description
A webring that linked 191 hobbyist sites about sourdough, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4479b2ef2c4e1dd36f7d8174505f326a0557cd921506d30121bd37c5061089be- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
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: Karin Hoffmann, The Sourdough Ring (1998–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29591.