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IMDB History

• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online
  database of information related to movies,
  television shows, actors, production crew
  personnel, video games and fictional characters
  featured in visual entertainment media. It is one
  of the most popular online entertainment
  destinations, with over 100 million unique users
  each month and a solid and rapidly growing
  mobile presence.[2] IMDb was launched on
  October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by
  Amazon.com.
•   IMDb originated from a single list started as a hobby by English film enthusiast Col Needham
    (founder and CEO of IMDb) in early 1987. The founding ideas of IMDb began with a posting
    by Col Needham titled "Those Eyes", on the subject of actresses with beautiful eyes. On
    October 17, 1990, Col Needham posted a simple software package to the USENET newsgroup
    rec.arts.movies, which allowed readers of that group to create and search a basic movie and
    TV database. The original database was built from the lists of credits that Col Needham and
    two other readers had begun to publish on the rec.arts.movies group. Other film fans began
    to participate in the collection of data on the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies.

•   Needham soon started a (male) "Actors List", while Dave Knight began a "Directors List", and
    Andy Krieg took over "THE LIST", which would later be renamed the "Actress List". Both this
    and the Actors List had been restricted to people who were still alive and working, but
    retired people began to be added, and Needham also started what was then (but did not
    remain) a separate "Dead Actors/Actresses List". The goal now was to make the lists as
    inclusive as the maintainers could manage. In late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000
    movies and television series. On October 17, 1990, Needham posted a collection of Unix shell
    scripts which could be used to search the four lists, and the database that would become the
    IMDb was born. At the time, it was known as the "rec.arts.movies movie database"
Types of med
• Film/Movies
• T.V shows
• Previews
Rating Scale
•   1 Do Not Want
•   2 Awful
•   3 Bad
•   4 Nice Try, But No Cigar
•   5 Meh’
•   6 Not Bad
•   7 Good
•   8 Very Good
•   9 Excellent
•   10 Perfect
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  • 2. IMDB History • The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique users each month and a solid and rapidly growing mobile presence.[2] IMDb was launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com.
  • 3. IMDb originated from a single list started as a hobby by English film enthusiast Col Needham (founder and CEO of IMDb) in early 1987. The founding ideas of IMDb began with a posting by Col Needham titled "Those Eyes", on the subject of actresses with beautiful eyes. On October 17, 1990, Col Needham posted a simple software package to the USENET newsgroup rec.arts.movies, which allowed readers of that group to create and search a basic movie and TV database. The original database was built from the lists of credits that Col Needham and two other readers had begun to publish on the rec.arts.movies group. Other film fans began to participate in the collection of data on the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. • Needham soon started a (male) "Actors List", while Dave Knight began a "Directors List", and Andy Krieg took over "THE LIST", which would later be renamed the "Actress List". Both this and the Actors List had been restricted to people who were still alive and working, but retired people began to be added, and Needham also started what was then (but did not remain) a separate "Dead Actors/Actresses List". The goal now was to make the lists as inclusive as the maintainers could manage. In late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series. On October 17, 1990, Needham posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, and the database that would become the IMDb was born. At the time, it was known as the "rec.arts.movies movie database"
  • 4. Types of med • Film/Movies • T.V shows • Previews
  • 5. Rating Scale • 1 Do Not Want • 2 Awful • 3 Bad • 4 Nice Try, But No Cigar • 5 Meh’ • 6 Not Bad • 7 Good • 8 Very Good • 9 Excellent • 10 Perfect