Cricinfo

Cricinfo is the largest cricket-related website. It includes news and articles, live scorecards, and a comprehensive and queriable database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present.

Related Topics:
Cricket - Database - 18th century

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Cricinfo was launched in 1993 by a group of students and cricket enthusiasts at Oxford University, Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. It operated as a volunteer-based collective, and started life as a simple IRC bot. It was soon made available via Gopher as well, and with the advent of the Mosaic web browser in April 1993 became one of the earliest content web sites on the Internet.

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1993 - Oxford University - Stanford University - University of Minnesota - IRC - Bot - Gopher - Mosaic - Web browser - Web site - Internet

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Cricinfo's continued growth ultimately resulted in it becoming a part of the Wisden group in 2003, when Cricinfo merged with Wisden Online. It is one of the most popular single-sport websites.

Related Topics:
Wisden - Website

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