Richard Goldberg - R@ygold

R@ygold

"R@ygold" was potentially a nickname of Richard Goldberg, which become a keyword. In the open "R@ygold" was first the name for a specific set of childporn-films of the 1970s with little girls from Color Climax with a new title screen. There is no evidence for a direct connection to Raymond Goldman and they seems only named after him. In the stories about him above only pictures are mentioned. In the Usenet it is first archived in February 2002, mention spam in some newsgroups. It becomes fast a keyword for similar pictures and films in the beginning of filesharing-software like LimeWire (Initial release May 2000) Kazaa (Initial release March 2001) and WinMX (initial release May 2001). The file extension of pictures and films was there changed to ".mp3" (propably because initial software indexed only "*.mp3" and later "*.zip", no pictures or videos.). In March 2003 was the end of a nearly one year long police investigation in Italy, which was named after the keyword and lead to 102 offenders. Because of the special character in the word, it is also written as "raygold", "r(at)ygold", "@ygold" or "ygold".

Raygold is also the name of a dam on the Rogue River in Oregon. RAYGOLD.ZIP or RAYGOLD.EXE was the name of a demo for the game "Rayman Gold" from Ubi Soft, which was distributed from November 1997 over FidoNet.