Rick Gates (Internet pioneer)
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Rick Gates (born October 18, 1956) is an Internet pioneer mostly known for organizing The Internet Hunt and developing the concept of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona.
The Internet Hunt
On 31 Aug 1992 he started the monthly competition The Internet Hunt where ten questions had to be answered with Internet sources exclusively. Tools of investigation were Usenet, Telnet, FTP, and, Archie, Jughead, Veronica, and Gopher. When the World Wide Web became more popular, the competition was closed in October 1994. NCSA Mosaic, the first popular Web browser was first published in April 1993.
Interpedia
On October 22, 1993, Gates proposed in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.services
to collaboratively create an encyclopaedia on the Internet. From this idea the Interpedia project evolved which is known as precursor to Wikipedia. The original proposal was made by Rick Gates in the posting Internet AS Encyclopedia on October 31, 1993, of Douglas P. Wilson in alt.bbs.internet
.[1]
Net Assets
In 1995, Rick Gates moved to Oregon, where he worked on developing a Web-based software and an Internet training company, Net Assets.[2][3][4][5] Rick was also employed as an adjunct professor, teaching at a distance for the University of Arizona School of Information Resources & Library Science and the Rochester Institute of Technology through the late 1990s. In 2005, he retired from Net Assets.
References
- ^ Wilson, Doug; Neville, Robert (October 30, 1993). "Internet AS Encyclopedia". news.future,alt.bbs.internet. Google Groups. Archived from the original on 8 Jul 2012.
- ^ Sue Fitzner; Kathy Wilka (7 Nov 1997). "Arizona Online Course Studies the Internet". LM_NET Archive. Archived from the original on Oct 25, 2023.
This was posted with the consent of the listserv coordinators. Thanks.
- ^ "Net Assets Corporation – Conduits Service Agreement". City of Fort Lauderdale. 4 April 2018. Archived from the original on Oct 25, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ "Net Assets Corporation". Business Registry: Business Name Search. Oregon Secretary of State. Archived from the original on Oct 17, 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ "Net Assets Corporation, Eugene, Oregon". AllBiz. Archived from the original on Oct 19, 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
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