Rick Gates (Internet pioneer)
Rick Gates 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 newsgroupalt.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.