##  [NL-Menu](/tool/nl-menu) 


 IntroductionBody

*NL-menu was the first Dutch web index. The site was originally founded by a consortium of SURFnet, Dutch universities and the KB [in 1992](http://www.kbresearch.nl/nl-menu/nl-menu/nlmenu.nl/admin/geschiedenis.shtml). From the mid-nineties onwards it was maintained solely by the KB. NL-menu was discontinued in 2004, after which the site was taken offline. In 2006 the domain name was sold to a private company that used it for hosting a web index that was partially based on the original NL-menu site.*

In 2018 Johan van der Knijff worked on restoring the NL-menu that had been largely lost to the mists of time.

Read more about [how he restored this website](https://www.bitsgalore.org/2018/04/24/resurrecting-the-first-dutch-web-index-nl-menu-revisited) from an old CD-ROM on his blog. And read how he [crawled the resurrected site](https://www.bitsgalore.org/2018/07/11/crawling-offline-web-content-the-nl-menu-case) to a WARC file that could be ingested into the KB web collection.

It is also possible to [visit the resurrected snapshot of the NL-Menu](http://www.kbresearch.nl/nl-menu/) (2004).

**Known issues**

- Links to categories that contain sub-categories don't work in Firefox. Workaround: right-click on the link and open it in a new tab (or disable JavaScript). In Chrome/Chromium these links work normally.
- The site contains a number of forms that don't work because the associated CGI scripts are missing (these scripts are not on the CD-ROM).
- Some pages show the URL kbresearch.nl, instead of the original nl-menu.nl. This is an unintended side-effect of the script that was used to update the links.



 

 

 



 

 

Afbeelding

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 ![Screenshot NL menu](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/NL%20menu.png?itok=XY64dpbX)

 





 

 



 

Citaat

When citing this page we request you cite it as follows:

Knijff, J. van der (2022) *NL-Menu*. KB Lab: The Hague. [https://lab.kb.nl/tool/nl-menu](/tool/nl-menu "NL-Menu")



 

 

Schermafbeelding

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 ![Screenshot NL menu logo](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/images/NL%20menu%20klein.png?itok=8r1XuNOj)

 





 

Developed by

Johan van der Knijff

 

 

Content

[Web archive](/taxonomy/term/27)

 

 

Category

[Digital Preservation](/taxonomy/term/22)

 

 

Related

[NL-menu resurrected](http://www.kbresearch.nl/nl-menu/)

[Bitsgalore - Resurrecting the first Dutch web index: NL-menu revisited](https://www.bitsgalore.org/2018/04/24/resurrecting-the-first-dutch-web-index-nl-menu-revisited)

[Bitsgalore - Crawling offline web content: the NL-menu case](https://www.bitsgalore.org/2018/07/11/crawling-offline-web-content-the-nl-menu-case)