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Feb 21, 2023 · IMDb’s emergence almost cost Gary Brumburgh a decade of his life. Brumburgh had spent the 1980s researching and writing a reference book covering a thousand actors, all while struggling to...
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Mar 23, 2012 · By the late 1990s, IMDb was popular enough to catch the attention of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who purchased the site from Needham for an undisclosed amount. Since IMDb is owned by Amazon, the website allows the visitor to quickly purchase movies from Amazon with only a few mouse clicks.
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The Internet Movie Database, abbreviated IMDb, was founded mainly by Col Needham along with several others at the dawn of the world wide web.
Oct 17, 2023 · 17 October 1990: The day Bristol native Col Needham posted his movie-listing software to the Internet and IMDb was born. It all started with the overwhelmingly human urge to make lists.
IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017.
Oct 16, 2015 · Huh? The answer is actually relatively straightforward. As IMDb’s founder Col Needham explained in 2010, it was on Oct. 17, 1990 that he “published a series of scripts which allowed you to...
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Oct 4, 2017 · The stated founding date of IMDb is October 17, 1990, when Needham posted his movie-listing software to a USENET film discussion group. The site was cooperatively expanded and became an early migrant to the World Wide Web .
