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IMDb Hits 25

Posted by timothy on from the 5-stars-down-the-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The year 2015 heralded a number of notable Internet milestones — the humble .com domain name reached 30 years of age, while both eBay and Amazon reached the grand old age of 20. That the Internet Movie Database, a gargantuan film and TV show encyclopedia better known as IMDb, began 25 years ago as a pre-Web hobby project and is now one of the top 50 most visited websites on the Internet is a notable achievement. "IMDb is the only pure Internet company that can celebrate its 25th anniversary," said Col Needham, founder and CEO of IMDb, in an interview with VentureBeat.

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  1. Pure Internet Company? by great+throwdini · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not sure what the definition of 'pure Internet company' might be in this context, but IMDb has been owned outright by Amazon since the late '90s, so at best, it's a 'pure Internet subsidiary' ...

    1. Re:Pure Internet Company? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      I remember when I first encountered IMDb. Downloaded it from aminet.
      It was fun playing around with a reasonably large dataset, picking out movies the same two actors had been on and such.
      The webpage, is much less fun, but it seems like you can still download the data from http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
      It claims to be a subset but doesn't specify what is missing.

  2. Re:Impressive but not unique by greenwow · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was online. It started on Usenet.

  3. Re:Happy birthday by justthinkit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pretty good rant, but one clarif -- you can make the "main details" page much bigger, by default, so that you don't have to click anything to find out who all was in and made the movie. Just a preference setting away, and it sticks like cookie dough.

    As to ads, I really had no idea IMDB had ads...

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