Was there a higher chance of encountering a Shiny in Gen 1?

In Gen.1 shininess in a Pokemon was determined by whether it had perfect IV’s or not, but does this mean there was a higher chance of encountering a shiny in Gen.1? Or is it there just a 1/8192 chance to find a Pokemon with perfect IVs in Gen.1?

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Anything you find in grass, caves, or surfing in RBY has exactly a 0% chance of becoming shiny when you trade it forward, due to constraints on the RNG state that are required in order to get a wild encounter in the first place. Static encounters (like Snorlax or Mewtwo), straight-up gifts (Lapras or Eevee), in-game trades with NPCs, and fishing encounters don’t place those constraints, so those could be generated with the combinations of stats that would become shiny, but at the original 1/8192 odds, and you wouldn’t know that they were set to become shiny without careful reading of stats or actually committing to the trade forward.

There were no Shinies in Gen I. But in Gen II, there was a way higher chance of finding a Shiny.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shiny_Pokémon

Technically there were shinies in gen 1, but since there wasn’t much color in the original game you wouldn’t see the shiny until you traded to a gen 2 game. I transferred a Normal looking snorlax from Pokémon blue to Pokémon silver and when it arrived in silver it was a shiny. As I kept transferring Pokémon over I found that there were quite a few Pokémon that arrived as shinies. Did some research and you can’t get a shiny from a trade, they have to already be a shiny before the trade, so therefor there are hidden shinies in gen 1 that may present themselves when traded to a gen 2 game.