# Angling for a donation

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/09/03/angling-donation/
- Published: 1997-09-03T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Web-Fishing, a “first-ever charity online game”, offers Internet surfers the opportunity
to make a $5 to $750 credit card donation and enter themselves in a competition.

The online game is a fishing contest where you have to cast a fishing line to try
to reel in a big fish. The winner with the biggest fish will receive software and
jewelry gift certificates. Forty prizes are on offer, worth more than $3,500.

The game is being run in aid of the Children’s Hospital of Boston. The game was 
developed with services donated by ObjectSoft, C-Systems, Microsoft, and with help
from Hewlett Packard.

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