Lazarus Archive · LZ-30792

MeridianSnap

Meridian Media, 1998–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 54 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2008.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
37f209551997f0163656f3514c727312bba859cecab30f99fde17293101cdb28
Last verified
Oct 1, 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: Meridian Media, MeridianSnap (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30792.

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