IMDb Turns 15

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 17, 2005 @08:04AM from the where-else-would-i-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "15 years ago today, Col Needham posted some shell scripts to rec.arts.movies which allowed anyone to search lists of actors, actresses, directors, and biographies. From this humble beginning -- which predates Yahoo, Google, and even the web itself -- the IMDb has wrangled the collective wisdom of millions of submitters to become not only a top 100 website but also a standard Hollywood tool for filmmaking. IMDb is celebrating with a retrospective of the last 15 years of IMDb and movies. Congratulations to IMDb and the internet community that built it."

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Re:15 Reasons to boycott IMDb by giorgiofr · 2005-10-17 08:24 · Score: 0, Troll

Oh yeah it takes from the community. It takes your frigging USELESS time, you idiot. Don't like it? Don't watch it. See? It was easy.

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15 years eh? by VonSkippy · 2005-10-17 08:47 · Score: 1, Troll

15 years old. Must be time for some international group like the UN or some other group of pussies to start DEMANDING that the control of the IMDB be handed over to some neutral international group so it can be safely controlled.