Description
A subscription online service with 269 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2018 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 59 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3bef869af205276f897025a557c86c77a95171ad3b6104cec93b6f2fe3dfd301- Last verified
- Oct 18, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Whimbrel Online Services, WhimbrelNet (2007–2018). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32436.