Description
A free community network that gave residents of Fernwater email, local news and a public bulletin board from 2003 to 2008.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a00bbe657955fac7fc667cd81fce7f9893807151491f92e353defc5a97ea785e- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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 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: Fernwater Free-Net Association, Fernwater Free-Net (2003–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37848.