Alt.culture

alt.culture was an online encyclopedia of youth culture, especially relating to Generation X, in the 1990s, based on the book Alt.Culture: An A-to-Z Guide to the 90's – Underground, Online and Over-the-Counter by Nathaniel Wice and Steven Daly.
The website was described by Chuck Klosterman in The [Nineties (book)|The Nineties] as "an unknowing precursor to Wikipedia" and provided "countercultural definitions for things that weren't important enough to be defined anywhere else." It had entries "covering everything from Alicia Silverstone to *69," which the book described as "a relationship-altering phone feature, also a 1994 song by R.E.M."
In 1997, Wice and Daly signed an agreement with Pathfinder, Time Warner Inc.'s content portal, which contracted them to write five new entries a week and regularly updating the site.