Description
An online forum for residents of Bellgate, run by a volunteer administrator from 1996 until it closed in 2004.
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. About 88 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
808f808524519842f36e51b47b82ce7904593c8f632c79f3fd601cd84a8f993a- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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: Maeve Marino, Bellgate Community Forum (1996–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41177.