[3] Beginning as a Yahoo Group, in 1993, the website was established in 1995 by Giuseppe Bottasini, a computer engineer from Milan.

[4] It has been called the most all-encompassing flag databases on the web, with over 19,000 pages by mid 2003.

This was started in 2005 by Andreis Petrus Burgers, Terence Martin and Christopher Southworth.

It has been criticized for including words of its own formulation, such as the term "archivexillum" which was coined by the editors of Flags of the World themselves in 2010.

[6] The organization's flag was designed by Mark Sensents, with its symbolism described as follows: "White on the hoist stands for peace, blue on the fly for progress.