Ciberayllu was conceived in a private email list, started by Peruvian historian Nelson Manrique.

The members of the list referred to the group with the term ayllu, a Quechua word that designates a traditional Andean community.

Four articles by the journalist and academic Víctor Hurtado Oviedo, from San José, Costa Rica; two by historian José Luis Rénique, from New York, USA; one by Maruja Martínez, from Lima; and another by Domingo Martínez Castilla, from Missouri, USA.

Since September, 2004, the university stopped hosting the original webzine, but the whole archive is reachable from the current home page.

Ciberayllu developed a section dedicated to original academic works and testimonies about the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, entitled Arguediana.