El Rincón del Vago

El Rincón del Vago (Spanish for "Lazybones's corner") is a Spanish-language web portal that offers content for students.

El Rincón del Vago

Available in	Spanish
URL	www.rincondelvago.com
Launched	1998

Established in 1998^[1] and held by Orange España, it offers a public access repository of information, notably monographs. It is very popular among students. This content is uploaded by its own community and can be easily reused by other students.^[2]

The website was created in 1998 in Calle Toro,^[3] in the Spanish city of Salamanca, and in a relatively short time it had gained a great deal of popularity in Spain, being a site of particular interest to students and teachers, especially the latter, in order to avoid copying or plagiarising from the former, and to obtain a work of study easily and without the least effort.^[4]

Ángel Benito, who had been involved in the project from the beginning, described the process: "The first version of the site was uploaded in February 1998 with only 6 works. In a few months, the portal's mailboxes were flooded with thousands of works. The name "Rincón del Vago" spread by word of mouth through the corridors of the faculties and institutes, and we grew without needing to invest in advertising. Within a few months, the first advertising agencies were knocking on our door, and soon after, large companies were interested in acquiring us. It was the golden age before the dotcom bubble. In the end it was Eresmás Interactiva that bought the portal. Through various corporate successions, we went from Eresmás to Wanadoo and from there to Orange".^[5]

Teachers use it as well to discover plagiarism.^[6]

References

1. "El rincón de los vagos cumple 10 años dando alegrías a través de internet". 20minutos.es. 21 February 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2014. (in Spanish)
2. Moral, Por Milton Del (2023-03-28). "La historia del Rincón del Vago, la web que nació cinco meses antes que Google y amenazó la formalidad del sistema educativo". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
3. 20minutos (2008-02-21). "El rincón de los vagos cumple 10 años dando alegrías a través de internet". 20bits (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. 20minutos (2007-10-14). "Internet ayuda a los profesores a descubrir plagios en los trabajos de sus alumnos". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
5. . 2016-05-31. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
6. "Internet ayuda a los profesores a descubrir plagios en los trabajos de sus alumnos". 20minutos.es. 14 October 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2014. (in Spanish)