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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon.com, is an online database of information about movie stars, movies, television shows, commercials, and video games.The IMDb has an extensive amount of information on works, including basic details such as actors and directors, plot summaries and reviews, as well as more esoteric information such as trivia, continuity errors and other goofs, soundtrack listings, aspect ratios, and alternate versions. Actors, directors, writers and other crew members have their own database entries, listing the movies and programs they worked on, and often also featuring biographies. The expanded database found at akas.imdb.com can be used to find movies from the title under which they were released in many different languages and countries.
The IMDb also reaches beyond being a database for movies and video games, by offering daily movie and TV news, and running special features at various movie events such as the Academy Awards. It has also expanded to provide the sister site IMDbPro, offering additional information to business professionals, such as contact details for people in the movie business, movie event calendars, and more. This site is not specifically designed for use by the general public, and its content is not free.
Access to the majority of the information at IMDb is free, however they have an additional paying members area of the site geared towards industry professionals, with more detailed production and box office information. In addition, any person with an e-mail account and a browser that accepts cookies can set up an account with IMDb, then submit information and cast votes to rate various titles.
1 History
The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQsA FAQ Frequently Asked Questions is a document containing a series of questions and answers all pertaining to a certain topic. FAQ" is sometimes pronounced as an acronym, fack and sometimes as the initialism F. Since it originated in the text medium of US posted to the UsenetUsenet or Unix User Network is a communications medium in which users read and post textual messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups (incorrectly called bulletin boards because of their similarity for the unaware observer). The m newsgroupA newsgroup is a repository, usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. The term is somewhat confusing, because it is usually a discussion group. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally rec.arts.movies [1]. In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic., a centralized e-mail interface for querying the database was created, and in 1994See also 1993 in film, other events of 1994, 1995 in film, list of 'years in film'. Events October 3 George Lucas begins writing the three Star Wars prequels. November 1 George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a this interface was extended to allow the submission of information as well. The database then moved to a WebThe World Wide Web (the Web or WWW for short) is a distributed hypertext system that operates over the Internet. Basic terms Hypertext is viewed using a program called a web browser which retrieves pieces of information, called "documents" or " web pages"-based interface, which initially ran on a network of mirrorsA mirror in computing is a direct copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site (often a web site). Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particul with donated bandwidth. In 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, the project was incorporated in the United Kingdom to form Internet Movie Database Ltd., and banner ads were added to the web site.
In April 1998, the company was bought by Amazon.com, the current owner; however, a number of the original creators, including Needham, remained as site managers.
