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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 5, 2019 3:26:27 GMT
We could have an Un-birthday Party ! 
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Oct 5, 2019 10:16:39 GMT
I was looking up the 1MDB scandal and mistyped the word.  |
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Oct 5, 2019 10:22:10 GMT
Was talking movies with a co-worker and was stuck trying to remember something about Cary Grant. She said there's a website we could look up the info called The Internet Movie Database and I was hooked. Would've been around 1994. Could only use it at work as I didn't have a computer at home until 1997. I joined the message boards March 30th 1999 not long after IMDb made some sort of announcement on it's main page although they existed in a smaller and exclusive 'club' before that.
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Post by Sulla on Oct 5, 2019 22:54:02 GMT
Like a lot of others I was googling movies in 2005 and found the IMDb. I didn't discover the message boards until a few months later.
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Post by gameboy on Oct 6, 2019 3:55:23 GMT
For some reason I googled American History X and got IMDb of course and saw the message board. This was 2006 and it was a very lively board with two warring camps, the white supremacist skinheads and the liberals who went there to argue with them. Schwarzwald Magnus was there. |
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Post by Marv on Oct 11, 2019 9:32:36 GMT
I actually heard about it before using it. I preferred a few other movie sites navigation and news. Can’t remember their url now but the ones I frequented were more for upcoming movies.
Then I started poking around IMDb, saw that there was a comment section for each movie, decided I wanted to discuss things like that with other people and the rest is history.
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Post by JHA Durant on Oct 11, 2019 9:58:00 GMT
September or October 2004, I was searching the internet to see what had become of some of the Doctor Who companion actors/actresses, and stumbled across a site which gave me all the information I needed about them (aka IMDb). When I discovered you could look up any movie, any actor/actress AND talk to others about them, I was hooked. Back then, you didn't need an account to read entire boards and threads, and then in early 2005 they changed that, so I got an account.  The rest is history.  |
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Post by Bargle on Oct 11, 2019 10:17:58 GMT
I first stumbled across it while looking for some movie info back in 1999. I discovered the message boards the next year and quickly became a regular on the "I Need to Know" board. Finally I had a place to use a lot of that movie/TV trivia bouncing around inside my head.
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Post by Marv on Oct 11, 2019 11:23:18 GMT
September or October 2004, I was searching the internet to see what had become of some of the Doctor Who companion actors/actresses, and stumbled across a site which gave me all the information I needed about them (aka IMDb). When I discovered you could look up any movie, any actor/actress AND talk to others about them, I was hooked. Back then, you didn't need an account to read entire boards and threads, and then in early 2005 they changed that, so I got an account. The rest is history. Jackjaybaz? |
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Post by JHA Durant on Oct 12, 2019 2:14:52 GMT
September or October 2004, I was searching the internet to see what had become of some of the Doctor Who companion actors/actresses, and stumbled across a site which gave me all the information I needed about them (aka IMDb). When I discovered you could look up any movie, any actor/actress AND talk to others about them, I was hooked. Back then, you didn't need an account to read entire boards and threads, and then in early 2005 they changed that, so I got an account. The rest is history. Jackjaybaz? No, I'm not that one. |
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Post by ant-mac on Oct 12, 2019 2:20:56 GMT
Just came across it in 2002, not long after I first got online.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Oct 12, 2019 2:36:20 GMT
I honestly can't remember, but probably from looking up a particular movie.
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Post by Vassaggo on Oct 12, 2019 8:03:08 GMT
Usenet groups at College.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 12, 2019 15:00:12 GMT
The old fashioned way I suppose, searching online.
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Post by mecano04 on Oct 12, 2019 17:40:13 GMT
At one point, I knew many people who tried to make it in the Canadian movie industry, mostly as directors and writers. Very few of them still work in the business today (that's another story) but talking with them I got to know the site.
While I used the site for information for a long time and still do, I wasn't active on the forums until much later though.
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