INTERVIEW: Volunteers helped turn IMDb into big business

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 13, 2005 11:20 PM EDT
Yahoo News; By Paul Bond
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When Col Needham was 14, he was developing gaming software. At 23, he created the Internet Movie Database. That was 15 years ago. ADVERTISEMENT Better known now as IMDb.com, the site started as a simple Usenet group for movie fans. Needham made the site searchable in 1990. He quit his day job in 1995 to focus full time on IMDb and sold the company to Amazon.com in 1998.

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