This Day in Tech History.
Added 2021-10-17 15:48:47 +0000 UTC
IMDb Launched
October 17, 1990
Colin Needham, an English movie fan, launches the “rec.arts.movies movie database”, which would later be known as the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb. An engineer working for HP at the time, by 1996 Needham quit his job to work on IMDb full-time. The IMDb is one of the most visited sites on the Internet and was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Needham is still the General Manager of the IMDb to this day. (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/)
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2021-10-18 08:38:51 +0000 UTC