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The answers to all of these questions are in the linked article. But, just to save you the bother: a) one guy started it, but it is not a one-man show, nor ha
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
The answers to all of these questions are in the linked article.
But, just to save you the bother:
a) one guy started it, but it is not a one-man show, nor has it ever really been
b) the data was sourced (Wikipedia-style, you might say) on Usenet, back in the pre-WWW days. Since then, the number of sources has multiplied.
c) it goes to Amazon, who bought the IMDB back in '98.
d) Of course not. He's a VP at Amazon. There is a staff (of unspecified size) working on IMDB.
- StavrosK 16y agoThanks, I skimmed it towards the end after it rambled a bit. Also, thank God for Readability.
- pyre 16y agoYou're forgetting the outcry there was for taking the USENET posts into a closed system. Similar to what happened with CDDB: 1. get users to submit a bunch of content to you in an open system for free 2. close the system and claim ownership of the database that your users helped create 3. profit!
- tungwaiyip 16y agoI fondly remember those days when the entire database is distributed on Usenet. I have written a editor macro to "join" the tables to generate the full detail data of every movie. Of course when the IMDb website has launched, I have switched to their query web page.