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Imdb+

Website

IMDb

The movie database, 20 years old

Supported

IMDb celebrated its 20th anniversary in October 2010. Owned by Amazon, it was the site everyone opened to settle who was in what, with its yellow-and-black branding, user ratings out of ten, and message boards that were a subculture of their own.

Illustration for IMDb
Original illustrationNot a screenshot
Domain in 2010
imdb.com
Launched
17 October 1990
Founders
Col Needham
Owner in 2010
Amazon
Status today
Still active

What people used it for

  • Looking up casts, credits and trivia
  • Rating films out of ten
  • Arguing on message boards

Interface characteristics

  • Yellow and black header
  • Dense text pages with small photos
  • Star ratings and user review counts

Notable features

  • IMDb Top 250
  • Message boards (closed in 2017)

What happened later

IMDb remains the standard film reference and closed its message boards in 2017.

Archived on the Wayback Machine

Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.

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