Description
A free community network that gave residents of North Southville email, local news and a public bulletin board from 1998 to 2008.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. About 80 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e2dc9d3cd27dca35eea860e13dea4dd08311256389bc7d9aa2d69291f3c1ab23- 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: North Southville Free-Net Association, North Southville Free-Net (1998–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35526.