Registering paper currency, most often US dollar bills, on a tracking website so its later movements through circulation can be followed, marking the bill or spending it as normal and waiting for a later finder to log a "hit" reporting where it turned up. The hobby was founded by the site Where's George?, launched in December 1998 by Hank Eskin, whose participants are nicknamed Georgers and pursue informal goals such as recording a hit in every US state; the site's aggregated data has also been used in academic research on human travel and disease-spread modeling.
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Established When (Circa) OriginFounded in December 1998 by Hank Eskin, a database consultant in Brookline, Massachusetts, as a website tracking the natural geographic circulation of American paper money, the site's popularity led to similar tracking websites for other objects such as used books. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Where's George? - Wikipedia
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Where's George? is a website that tracks the natural geographic circulation of American paper money.
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The site was established in December 1998 by Hank Eskin, a database consultant in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Its popularity has led to the establishment of a number of other currency tracking websites and sites that track other objects, such as used books.
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