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.
- 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.
