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The Internet Hunt was a monthly online game and search training tool, conceived and conducted by Rick Gates, as Director of Library Automation UC Santa Barbara, which began 31 August 1992, prior to the World Wide Web.[1]

Most Internet Hunts were composed of ten questions that Gates had verified could be answered with Internet sources exclusively, and tools of that time, such as Usenet, Telnet, FTP, and, Archie, Jughead, Veronica, and Gopher. The first individual or team to answer all ten questions correctly and provide the method used to answer them was declared the winner(s).[1]

The Internet Hunt ran from Aug 1992[1][2] to 1995. It was mentioned in a book, on a website, and on LISTSERVs.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gates, Rick (1992-08-31). "A CHALLENGE FOR ALL INTERNET USERS". Newsgroup: bit.listserv.libref-l. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  2. ^ Greim, Lisa (11 May 1997). "Sat-type test measures net skill". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2012. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)
  3. ^ Silicon Snake Oil, Clifford Stoll, Doubleday, 1995, pp189–190
  4. ^ Bruckman, Amy (1 July 1994). "King of the Hunt". Wired. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Issue 2.07, July, 1994 p33
  5. ^ Gates, Rick (1993-12-01). "The November 93 Hunt Results "K-12 ONLY HUNT"". Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  6. ^ Gates, Rick (1993-09-01). "September Hunt Questions: THE INTERNET HUNT, for September, 1993 - A BEGINNER'S HUNT". Discussion of Library Reference Issues (LIBREF-L). Archived from the original on 2003-06-13. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  7. ^ 1993 October Internet Hunt "The October Internet Hunt required use of netfind, finger, whois, vrfy, CSO, X.500, Usenet Addresses, and numerous local databases to find people on the nets."
  8. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20201015024531/http://lmnet-archive.iis.syr.edu/LM_NET-pre1997/1994/Jan_94/msg00108.html
  • Gates, Rick (25 November 1992). "The First Internet Info Hunt". PIGULKI. 1 (12). ISSN 1060-9288. Retrieved 15 October 2020. And the winner is Hope N. Tillman of Babson College, who submitted an entry scoring 46 points on Friday Sept 4, at 03:22 GMT. (Questions and answers)
  • Savetz, Kevin (1994). "10 Where Are All the Fun and Games? 2 Other Diversions: 15. What is the Internet Hunt?". Your Internet Consultant - The FAQs of Life Online. ISBN 0672305208. OCLC 924947250. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  • Gates, Rick (1 January 1993). "Internet cruising with the Internet Hunt". The Electronic Library. 11 (1): 19–24. doi:10.1108/eb045204. ISSN 0264-0473. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Heard of some interesting new resource on the Internet? Wondering how to get access? Feeling like the Internet is a confusing collection of tools and data? Archie, telnet, gopher, WAIS, Usenet, FTP, world‐wide‐web, Freenet, finger …
  • Garfinkel, Simson (2000). "The Biggest Database In the World". In Russell, Deborah (ed.). Database Nation: the death of privacy in the 21st century. O'Reilly. ISBN 1565926536. OCLC 247759893. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Back before the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, Rick Gates, a student and lecturer at the University of Arizona, was interested in exploring the limits of the Internet database. In September 1992, he created the Internet Hunt, a monthly scavenger hunt for information on the Net.
  • "Net Surf". Wired. 1 April 1993. Retrieved 15 October 2020. The Internet Hunt: a monthly contest hosted by Rick Gates, Director of Library Automation at UC Santa Barbara...To find this cool hangout, paddle out to usenet group alt.internet.services. Whether you're a novice surfer or a pro, you'll want to check this one out.
  • Gerber, Brian (October 1994). "The Internet Hunt as a Learning Tool". Computers in Libraries. 14 (9). Questia. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Questia is operated by Cengage Learning.
  • Blackstone, Pam. "Internet Hunts". Random Access. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Times Colonist. Archived from the original on 2000-08-23.
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