17 October 2015 1:48 PM, PDT | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
It’s hard to believe but today, October 17, marks the exact day 25 years ago that IMDb (aka Internet Movie Database, but that’s not the preferred name for these film geeks) made its debut in the world and changed everything for those who live, breathe and write about film and awards like I do. That is the day in 1990 that Col Needham, founder and CEO of IMDb posted a set of shell scripts to the Usenet group rec.arts.movies, thereby creating a searchable database of… »
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