IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information about films, television programmes, video games and the people who make them. It grew out of lists of film credits that fans exchanged in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies, and Col Needham, a British computer engineer, compiled them into a database in 1990. It moved to the web in 1993 as a site hosted at Cardiff University, and in 1998 it was acquired by Amazon. The site holds cast and crew listings, plot summaries, trivia and reviews, and its user ratings are used to compile lists such as the Top 250 films. Over time it became the standard reference for the entertainment industry, though much of its material is edited by users.
Before and after
- 14 September 1990The first gene therapy treatment is given
- from 1 October 1990 to 4 August 1993Rwandan Civil War
- 3 October 1990German reunification
- 6 October 1990Launch of Ulysses
- 17 October 1990Founding of IMDb
- from 2 November 1990 to 21 July 1992Transnistria War
- 9 November 1990Release of Dances with Wolves
- 30 November 1990Birth of Magnus Carlsen
- 1 December 1990Founding of Shenzhen Stock Exchange
More in Society, economy & sport
- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- 5 October 1948Founding of International Union for Conservation of Nature
- 5 May 1949Founding of Council of Europe
- 1952Founding of European Parliament
- 1985Introduction of new shekel
- 1990Rise of K-pop
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.