El Rincón del Vago (Spanish for "Lazybones's corner") is a Spanish-language web portal that offers content for students.
Established in 1998[1] and held by Orange España, it offers a public access repository of information, notably monographs.
[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.
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.