Lazarus Archive · LZ-41137

OrchidNet

Orchid Online Services, 1999–2008. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A subscription online service with 110 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Larkstead Demoscene Archive in 2025. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
603395409880af2909e8236974bcd39b72cb73289102a4ed322c82a9310329d9
Last verified
Oct 29, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Orchid Online Services, OrchidNet (1999–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41137.

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