Lazarus Archive · LZ-30715

PioneerNet

Pioneer Online Services, 2001–2012. Website or online service for Flash.

Description

A subscription online service with 56 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2012 with thirty days’ notice.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 56 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e0417784a8fb2c100d2a235e3deea798c9b35bef2babfeb3aa37ebea537ddb11
Last verified
Oct 30, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Pioneer Online Services, PioneerNet (2001–2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30715.

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