World66
The World66 web project was an online travel guide.
The Dutch Internet Forum is based (like Wikipedia) on free content , but its content is limited to travel and tourism. All entries are in English and can be written or changed by users. Structure and structure are very similar to the well-known Lonely Planet .
The site was founded in 1999 as osinga.com by the brothers Richard and Douwe Osinga and Michael Manikowski, but was renamed World66 shortly afterwards. In this phase World66.com was a pioneer of the free content principle. At the very beginning, after registering with any e-mail address, you could freely change the visible content and create new structures (countries, cities, etc.). In order to prevent misuse, an editor system was then brought into being, in which one editor was responsible for certain regions and monitored content editing. World66 published its first mobile travel guides for Palm OS and Mobile Windows very early on, and in the same year (2000) created the option of editing content from mobile computers (for example with a Palm). The use of GPS localization and the display of environmental data as well as the integration of GPS-coded map material were ideas from the World66 forge (without claiming to have been the inventor of these possibilities). As it turned out, the development of hardware lagged behind these ideas for a while, but has now become a matter of course with the widespread use of smartphones .
World66 recorded more than 140,000 entries for over 79,000 vacation spots, hotels, etc. Ä.
On April 20, 2006, the sale of the domain world66.com , together with wikitravel , to Internet Brands was announced.
The website has not been available since June 2018 and is no longer listed on the Internet Brands website.
Web links
- Official website (archived on Archive.org)