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, before 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]
Issue 2.07, July, 1994 p33
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)
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 …
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.
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.
