IMDb Hits 25

Posted by timothy on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:56AM 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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Pure Internet Company? by great+throwdini · 2015-10-30 11:11 · 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' ...
Re:Impressive but not unique by greenwow · 2015-10-30 11:50 · Score: 5, Informative

It was online. It started on Usenet.