Interpedia was one of the first-proposed online encyclopedia which would allow anyone to contribute by writing articles and submitting them to the central catalogue of all Interpedia pages.
7-478: Interpedia was initiated by Rick Gates , who posted a message titled "The Internet Encyclopedia" on October 25, 1993 to the PACS-L (Public-Access Computer Systems Forum) Listserv . That message included the following musings: The more I thought about this, the more I realized that such a resource, containing general, encyclopedic knowledge for the layman, would be an important tool for some types of research, and for
14-531: A Web-based software and an Internet training company, Net Assets. 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. This biographical article relating to a computer specialist
21-553: The Net.Citizenry in general. Ahh.. but what about contributors... where will you find authors to write the short articles you need? Well, I'd first have to start out by finding some way of communicating with an extremely diverse set of people... everyone from linguists , to molecular biologists , from animal rights activists to zymurgists , and from geographers to gas chromotographers . Guess what? :-) The Net provides just such an arena! So I thought about it some more...and came to
28-595: 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 Misplaced Pages . 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 . In 1995, Rick Gates moved to Oregon, where he worked on developing
35-414: The conclusion that this is a good idea! In November 1993, discussions moved to a dedicated mailing list , supplemented later by Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.interpedia . Several independent "Seal-of-approval" (SOAP) agencies were envisioned which would rate Interpedia articles based on criteria of their own choosing; users could then decide which agencies' recommendations to follow. The project
42-611: 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. On October 22, 1993, Gates proposed in
49-528: Was actively discussed for around half a year, but never left the planning stages, perhaps partly due to the unprecedented growth of the World Wide Web . Rick Gates (Internet pioneer) 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 . On 31 Aug 1992 he started
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