Description
A subscription online service with 74 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2008 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
54eca29bf2f1721020aec578fc54f74813bca1acabb9dff8ff1801cb9a171789- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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: Heron Online Services, Heron Online (2002–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41162.