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The Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC) rating system was developed in 1994 for rating computer games. In 1996 it launched the RSACi ( Recreational Software Advisory Council on the internet) content rating system for web pages. RSACi is compatible with the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) standard.

The RSACi system provided information about the level of sex, nudity, violence and offensive language in a web page. The system allowed a webmaster to rate each page within the website. The RSACi rating system relied on a webmaster filling out a questionnaire. The questionnaire asked specific questions about the page content found within the webmaster's site. The webmaster would submit the questionnaire to the RSAC web server which would respond with the HTML content advisory tags that the webmaster could include in their web page. An Internet browser configured to read the RSACi system can recognize these tags. Web pages would be displayed if they met the criteria selected by the user (parent, school, etc.).

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.x or greater and Netscape Navigator 4.x supported the RSACi system. The Content Advisor in Internet Explorer supports the RSACi rating system by using a rsaci.rat file. The rat (RATing) file contains the rating system information that the browser can use to compare against the HTML content tags found on a rated web page. By default the browser looks for the rating files in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. If your system doesn't have the file you can download the rsaci.rat file and save it to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory.

In the Spring of 1999 RSAC became part of ICRA. The ICRA ratings system was launched in December 2000. ICRA no longer is supporting the RSACi rating system.

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