The World Wide Web Virtual Library

The World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL), with its domain, vlib.org, is an educational library website that operates as a directory of e-texts and information sources on the web. It is one of the oldest websites that was registered before 1995, after info.cern.ch.
The Virtual Library was started by Tim Berners-Lee creator of HTML and the World Wide Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ Unlike commercial index sites, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are experts. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "WWW VL", the "Virtual Library" or just "the VL".
==History==
WWW VL was first conceived and run by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, and later expanded, organised and managed for several years by Arthur Secret as the "virtual librarian".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press The Virtual Library grew over the years. From April 2004, it was relocated at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, where a history of the catalogue is also available.http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/about.html The Virtual Library museums pages were added by Jonathan Bowen to the Virtual Library to cover museums in 1994.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_International
In 2005, the central WWW Virtual Library website (vlib.org) was taken over by a new member, Michael Chapman, leading to the demise of the project.https://web.archive.org/web/20141204174953/http:/vlib.iue.it/history/about/desctruction-vl.html
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