{"id":15148,"date":"2019-10-17T23:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/imdb-launched-4\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T23:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:19:47","slug":"imdb-launched-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/imdb-launched-4\/","title":{"rendered":"IMDb Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/article-1342663-0C99AEB1000005DC-615_468x286.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2330]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2331\" title=\"article-1342663-0C99AEB1000005DC-615_468x286\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4b230__article-1342663-0C99AEB1000005DC-615_468x286-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/article-1342663-0C99AEB1000005DC-615_468x286-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/article-1342663-0C99AEB1000005DC-615_468x286.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>October 17, 1990<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Col_Needham\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Needham<\/a>, an English movie fan, launches the &#8220;rec.arts.movies movie database&#8221;, which would later be known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMDB\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Movie Database, or IMDb<\/a>. An engineer working for HP at the time, by 1996 Needham quit his job to work on IMDb full-time. The IMDb is one of the most visited sites on the Internet and was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Needham is still the General Manager of the IMDb to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/10\/17\/imdb-launched\/\">IMDb Launched<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3bded__12905197.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12905197\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 1990 Colin Needham, an English movie fan, launches the &#8220;rec.arts.movies movie database&#8221;, which would later be known as the Internet Movie Database, or IMDb. An engineer working for HP at the time, by 1996 Needham quit his job to work on IMDb full-time. The IMDb is one of the most visited sites on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2435,1523],"class_list":["post-15148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-imdb","tag-launched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}