Description
A subscription online service with 365 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1c286ef225793935a7a4b8564405c8bca7eefc26d7f06db2a739776a8b091ee2- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Osprey Online Services, OspreyNet (1996–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30939.