Monday, October 17, 2005
IMDB is 15 today
I was over at IMDB looking up info on Miranda July and noticed that today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of IMDB. Here is part of the story from their anniversary section:
"October 17th: Our founder, Col Needham, wrote a series of Unix shell scripts which made the list that were being collected at a Usenet group called "rec.arts.movies," searchable (the lists were filmographies for actors, actresses, directors and something called the "dead list"). The ability to search existing data is one of the key components of the Web experience, and it immediately made the lists more meaningful and useful. Though the new name was still six years off, the Internet Movie Database was, in essence, born."
In addition to little tidbits about the site's history, there are also lists of staff favorite films.
Tip: (although this is probably old news to alot of you) In Firefox, you can simply type "imdb" and then your query (for example, "imdb miranda july") in the address bar and FF will take you directly to the IMDB page.
I was over at IMDB looking up info on Miranda July and noticed that today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of IMDB. Here is part of the story from their anniversary section:
"October 17th: Our founder, Col Needham, wrote a series of Unix shell scripts which made the list that were being collected at a Usenet group called "rec.arts.movies," searchable (the lists were filmographies for actors, actresses, directors and something called the "dead list"). The ability to search existing data is one of the key components of the Web experience, and it immediately made the lists more meaningful and useful. Though the new name was still six years off, the Internet Movie Database was, in essence, born."
In addition to little tidbits about the site's history, there are also lists of staff favorite films.
Tip: (although this is probably old news to alot of you) In Firefox, you can simply type "imdb" and then your query (for example, "imdb miranda july") in the address bar and FF will take you directly to the IMDB page.
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