http://www.imdb.com/features/15thanniversary/
(started as newsgroup, but amazingly the web site itself -- same name -- was up way back in 1993 (http://www.imdb.com/features/15thanniversary/history))
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15 years ago this week (Oct 17th, exactly) the Internet Movie Database, in essence, took shape. In those 15 years we have enjoyed the camaraderie and marveled at the efforts of hundreds of thousands of participants with the site. It is due to everyone's hard work, attention to detail, diligence, and love of movies and media that the site is what it is today. The founders and staff cannot thank those who have contributed, corrected, criticized, coerced, and (sometimes) complimented us enough. This site is a testimony to the power of this medium and the power that movies have to inspire and to create a community. Here's to our next 15 years together.
As part of our anniversary we've done a retrospective, not only of our own history, but of a brief history of film from 1990 - 2005. We've also asked our editors to add their top 15 films for the last 15 years. You can see some of the individual lists in rotation on the top right hand side of this page, and visit here for the full set. The list on the top left hand side of this page is an aggregate of that list, truly the best of the best, according to the editors at the IMDb.
...thanks to a mention by /. (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/1720237), natch.
I had to drop a piece (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165562&cid=13811626) of my sparkling wit over there too...
;)
Wow, you still find time to occasionally post there (http://slashdot.org/~decipher_saint), eh? :shock:
And thanks to a Slashdot poster there was a link to http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html
! Wow, I was surprised to find that the field "Genre" has a list of "Valid Values" that includes only these...
-Action
-Adventure
-Animation
-Comedy
-Crime
-Documentary
-Drama
-Family
-Fantasy
-Film-Noir
-Horror
-Musical
-Mystery
-Romance
-Sci-Fi
-Short
-Thriller
-War
-Western
Also interesting article:
"every day 400,000 people seek—or submit—information at the Internet Movie Database, how did it become the industry standard?" (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1346/is_7_47/ai_88612974/print)
Now with even more addictiveness!
Movie Keywords Analyzer (MoKA)
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Keywords/
This week IMDB had a new change: they now have an "Episode List" instead of "Guest Appearances" for each TV show.
And I was unhappy when I first saw the change.
BUT, dang, Mr. Analog, dude, you wuz right!
Just now I wanted to see which "Voyager" episode had the character "Rain", the one with the time-travelling bad guy played by Ed Begley Jr., to see if it was Sarah Silverman playing "Rain" or not.
And hey look there is a link at the top of the new "Episode List" page:
#1. Episode List
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/episodes
#2. Episodes Cast (link from #1)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112178/epcast
YAY! #2 is what I thought had gone "bye bye", and it made me sad cuz sometimes you don't know the actor's name, only the character, and with reruns you don't know what season/episode# it is you just watched. :)
So IMDB's changes to the "guest appearances" so it is now "episode list" did NOT get rid of the handy page I always used. So I guess I'll let IMDB live for another day. ;)
yet ANOTHER layout change...
Now it shows IMAGES of the cast and/or scenes from the movie (TV show?) so when you see the actor's name you are less likely to go "is that the guy from that show where the thing did that thing?"
e.g.
"V" (1983)
(http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/6711/imdbnewlayoutvmw7.png) (http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/6711/imdbnewlayoutvmw7.png)
( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/ )
Ick!
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 20, 2006, 03:44:26 PM
Ick!
Yeah, well, considering the INCREDIBLY LONG PAGE LOADS over the last few months visiting nearly anything on IMDB (thanks especially to the extra Flash ads and unwelcome popups) I'm actually glad some "extra" info is there on the main page... but then again that slows down the pageloads even more so...
And the only other "real" alternative is TVTome.com (oops I mean TV.com) which is painfully slow for its own reasons ::)
Quote from: Darren Dirt on July 20, 2006, 03:50:35 PMFlash ads and unwelcome popups
What are those?
(http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/rediscover.gif) (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=60)
I can "kill" the Flash ads, sure, but they still *load* from the server -- as do the attempted popups. And that's the slowness -- not in the rendering.
It's all for "payin' the bills" of course, just like the ComedyCentral.com video player, I hate it but keep coming back there for the content ::)
Except of course most of the ComedyCentral stuff is also on YouTube and/or GoogleVideo, so ... not so much. :)
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PS: http://www.tvtome.com/ is the old URL, http://www.tv.com/ bought it out... But the very clean http://www.epguides.com/ still exists for easy episode-name-finding etc.
adblock plus for firefox stops the images and flash files frome downloading. it also removes the blocked script from being run. this makes most ad filled sites load far quicker than usual
AdBlock Plus... Never heard of it -- but I presume you mean this?
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/
I'll have to try it at home... Thanks.
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PS: Cool, on the extensions page with AdBlockPlus (https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?cat=35) there was a mention of "JSView (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2076/)" -- apparently it allows you to one-click "view-source" external JS files, which I do manually (i.e. save locally, then view) all the time 8)
I was using regular abblock work a while but Adblock plus has more features and is updated more often...
Using it with the default subscription is good, but using it with Filterset.G (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/) works even better.. I rarely have to add my own filter, and it is fairly easy to turn the whole thing on and off on pages that have something blocked that you wanted to see.
There are some sites and forums I view often that I would never have even spent a minute on, if I had seen them first with all of their ads in tact
Ugh.
Redesign this month.
UGH.
but GNE!
Temporarily you can revert back to the OLD design (hooray!)
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?redesignolddesign
http://www.imdb.com/register/siteprefs
from the "Redesign FAQ (http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?redesignfaq)"
Thanks, I REALLY HATE HATE HATE the new design.
Funny I hadn't even noticed, then again I done use that site often.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 22, 2007, 01:12:40 PM
Thanks, I REALLY HATE HATE HATE the new design.
Ditto to the eleven (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/quotes)th degree! (I'm thinking "Ugh" kinda gave that away ;D )
Apparently their FAQ sez it was as a result of "user testing". Yeah, "focus groups" always tell you how to "improve" things. ::)
One thing I noticed majorly different: all the easy-to-distinguish section divisions are now pretty much gone. So when your eyes are looking for certain section markers, it's all pretty much free-floating text, no lines, no coloured section headings... DAMN hard to find what you've been used to finding uber-easily the past half-decade >:(
Here's hoping that the "use old layout" option will not just be "temporary". :)
Trying to use the "new" IMDB is almost as frustrating as when I tried out the Hotmail "Live Beta" (within 20 minutes I reverted back, after compiling a quicklist of at least a dozen things I hated and/or missed from the normal Hotmail ::) )
IMDB @ 20 years: facebook without the lawsuits ( = boring ;) )
http://www.thestar.com/article/875456--howell-website-imdb-marks-20-years-in-the-movie-biz
...not sure which is funnier sadder: how there already existed a thread for "IMDB @ xyz Years" ... or how I remembered it existed!
PS: anyone else effin HATE the "default" page now? I always find myself trying to click a link to see the "navigation bar" on the left, which has pretty basic HTML instead of the puppy-kicking SLOW dynamic-loading contents of the new page... just compare http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001385/bio with http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001385/maindetails -- where the *!@# is the nav bar???
I've been sick of the site for years now, they just can't keep the easy to read layout, it's all about pushing marketing now, period.
Most of the time Wikipedia has the information I'm hungry for, so iMDB is only like a last resort now.
I learned something new today... IMDb was around before WWW.