Description
A free community network that gave residents of Barford Falls email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1996 to 2008.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b9f279dccccc7766371e44de1024323ea68fbbdc95cf7d54c77d177666926641- 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
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
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: Barford Falls Free-Net Association, Barford Falls Free-Net (1996–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32925.