Description
A subscription online service with 154 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2020 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 50 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
412a423943b419fd5a8fe7f4b8384c4388f2203c5b1038ca612602de25fab45c- Last verified
- Oct 12, 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: Tern Online Services, Tern Online (2011–2020). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37163.