Rotten Tomatoes is a website that collects reviews of films and television programmes, and displays them as a percentage score, the Tomatometer, which shows the proportion of critics' reviews that are positive. It was created by three friends, Senh Duong, Patrick Lee and Stephen Wang, who were fans of Hong Kong cinema and wanted a place to collect reviews. A film is labelled fresh if at least sixty percent of reviews are favourable, and rotten if below that. The site was bought by IGN, and later by Flixster, then Warner Bros, and since 2016 has been owned by Fandango. It has become influential, though critics argue that its simple score hides nuance.
Before and after
- 23 July 1998Creation of Mandriva Linux
- from 2 August 1998 to 30 June 2003Second Congo War
- from 4 August 1998 to 30 August 1998Operation Kitona
- from 17 August 1998 to 15 November 19981998 Russian financial crisis
- 19 August 1998Release of Rotten Tomatoes
- 4 September 1998Founding of Google
- 6 September 1998Death of Akira Kurosawa
- 1 October 1998Founding of Europol
- from 7 October 1998 to 21 May 2006Premiere of Charmed
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- 1945Invention of computer
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
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