Web Developer's Virtual Library is an free encyclopedia of Java, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, DHTML, XML, Perl, web design and domain name tutorials and resources.
"The WDVL site explores the frontier of Web technology," said Alan M. Meckler, chairman and CEO of Mecklermedia. "Their editorial team, headed by founder Alan Richmond, has created a site of international renown, continuously cited as one of the best in the field of Web development content.
I was one of the first people to collect and publish links to web development resources. It was in 1993, on a NASA computer, on which I established one of NASA's first web servers, and one of the first 300 in the world. As the links list grew larger and larger and became more of a personal hobby (or obsession), I decided to move it to a non-government server. It went briefly to Nyx under the name of The CyberWeb, and thence to Charm Net in Baltimore, where I established Stars.com in 1994.
I left NASA in 1995 to establish a web development company (CyberWeb SoftWare), but found that I could get better, more reliable revenue from banner advertising on Web Developer's Virtual Library. Initially we (Lucy and I) handled the clients ourselves, but we found that to be a difficult task and so we gladly joined the DoubleClick Network. Mecklermedia acquired the site in March 1998.
Web Week, Volume 2, Issue 15, October 7, 1996. This article, by Neil de Mause, gives a snapshot of our thinking about Web Developer's Virtual Library in 1996.