Happy Birthday, IMDB! It turns 25 years old this year!

[thewayne]

Amazon and Ebay are now 20, the former now owns IMDB.

I remember reading movie news on that sight over 20 years ago, I don't remember exactly when I started. And while I don't use it on a daily basis, I use it a few times a week, most recently looking at the Game of Thrones/Dr. Who link.

This is an interesting history of the site, including how it started before Sir Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/30/25-years-of-imdb-the-worlds-biggest-online-movie-database/ (press Escape to cancel the covering ad, or at least that's what I had to do)

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I wonder if IMDb ever sported an Archie interface.. =:D

Amazon has many faults, including awful treatment of warehouse staff, and tax cheating on a grand scale, but they have indeed left their tendrils only showing modestly. In exchange, they're funded to the extent required to serve half the planet. I know I'll check up on IMDb a couple times during many TV episodes, where we get to wondering if some cameo is who we think they are, or what someone's been up to since some high profile role, eg the star of Dead Like Me.

Only the Zygons this week, but there's rarely bad Who - it almost always winds up being great fun, though Kill the Moon.. *cough*

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Zygons are fun, I think it's cool that they resurrected a monster that hasn't been seen in so long. Perhaps it's the nostalgia bug kicking in from seeing UNIT back as Tom Baker was my first Doctor and UNIT was very prominent in his run.

They've been re-running old Tom Bakers here recently, but a very small subset. I saw Robots of Death was on and realized that they reminded me of the angels from the Titanic Christmas episode from a few years back.