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Amateur radio direction finding (ARDF, also known as radio orienteering, radio fox hunting and radiosport) is an amateur racing sport that combines radio direction ...
In 1980, Ford Models, the innovator of scouting, introduced the Ford Models Supermodel of the World contest. [22] That same year, John Casablancas opened Elite Models in New York. In 1981, cosmetics companies began contracting top models to lucrative endorsement deals. By 1983, Elite had developed its own contest, the Elite Model Look competition.
2000 – iStockPhoto was founded: The free stock imagery website allows the public to contribute to and receive commission for their contributions. [30] 2001 – Launch of Wikipedia: "Free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia". [31] 2001 – Foundation of Topcoder – crowdsourcing software development company. [32] [33]
He won several amateur bodybuilding competitions before turning professional in 1979, including the 1976 Mr. America title and the heavyweight division of the 1978 IFBB Mr. Universe. [6] In late 1979, he won the heavyweight class of the Mr. Olympia , but lost in the overall to Frank Zane .
A Photoshop contest, or sometimes Photoshop battle (often abbreviated to PS Battle), is an online game, in which a website or user of an Internet forum will post a starting image — usually a photograph — and ask others to manipulate the image using some graphics editing software, usually Adobe Photoshop, however other editors are commonly allowed, such as Corel Photo-Paint, GIMP, PaintShop ...
Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
NHK Nodo Jiman (Japanese: NHKのど自慢), also known by its English title as NHK Amateur Singing Contest, [1] is a long-running TV program broadcast on NHK TV and NHK radio in Japan. History [ edit ]
The Toughman Contest, founded in 1979 in Bay City, Michigan, by late boxing promoter Art Dore (1936–2022), [1] is a chance for the novice amateur boxers (those with no more than five sanctioned wins in the past five years) to test themselves in the ring.