Rick Gates

Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer, which is mainly due to the competition it held Internet The Hunt and the proposal for an Internet encyclopedia that Interpedia made ​​famous.

He studied at the Library School of the University of California in September 1992 when he began to organize the monthly contest "The Internet Hunt". This question had to be answered only with the help of internet sources. When researching Internet services such as Usenet, FTP, Gopher and Telnet were used ( NCSA Mosaic, the first popular Web browser, was first published in April 1993 ). With the advent of the World Wide Web of the competition was completed in October 1994 until further notice.

1995 was Rick Gates in Oregon, where he worked for the software company assets Net. He also taught at various library schools in Oregon and at the University of Arizona School of Information Resources & Library Science. He currently lives in Eugene, Oregon.