{"id":4204,"date":"2004-08-06T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2004-08-06T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T11:10:08","slug":"the_history_of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4204","title":{"rendered":"The History of IMDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/ink\/04\/37\/features-finke.php\">LA Weekly has a cool feature<\/a> on the history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\">Internet Movie Database<\/a>.  The part of the article I was happy to see was acknowledging the early roots of the database.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a bit of an understatement considering Needham ended up transforming a small hobby into an international business. But remember, back in 1989, terms like &#8220;World Wide Web&#8221; were totally foreign. Needham joined a movie discussion group on what was then the fledgling university-linked Internet. The members were almost all American male college students, and their favorite topic was &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; who&#8217;s the most attractive actress and what movies has she been in.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, the guys volunteered their private databases and actresses begat actors, which begat directors, which begat writers, which begat cinematographers, which begat plot summaries. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/ink\/04\/37\/features-finke.php\">LA Weekly<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember when I was at CMU hanging out on rec.arts.movies and people discussing THE LIST.  Which was this list of actresses and movies.  If you <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?num=20&#38;hl=en&#38;lr=&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;q=%22The+List%22+group%3Arec.arts.movies+actresses&#38;btnG=Search\">search on Google Groups<\/a> you can find numerous mentions of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Weekly has a cool feature on the history of the Internet Movie Database. The part of the article I was happy to see was acknowledging the early roots of the database. That&#8217;s a bit of an understatement considering Needham ended up transforming a small hobby into an international business. But remember, back in 1989, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}