A message board was all it was when it was first created. The rest of it was just window dressing that built up around the message board. Think I am going to start boycotting Amazon because this is not the first website they did this to. Amazon is becoming to the internet like the ebola virus is to human life.
shareNonsense! Imdb started as a text database on the Usenet forum in 1990. Before the WWW!
share"Nonsense! Imdb started as a text database on the Usenet forum in 1990"
Argh! And what did you THINK that a Usenet forum was anyway? It was a MESSAGE BOARD dummy, and yes it was text based just as IMDBs message board was. Did you ever even USE It? I did. I used it in netscape newsgroup reader. Were you even born then? That's how it started. What's wrong with people and their lack of ability to understand SIMPLE things these days anyway?