Description
A subscription online service with 87 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2022 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dc56d308062cf5dbb029fceefdb5bc4ab37b3aa181a23a6a26dcb45f279a0c46- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- 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.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Gyre Online Services, GyreNet (2021–2022). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31770.