On January 22, 2025, I read Pixy Misa’s Daily Tech News on Ace of Spades HQ. It included a fun fact along with a link about IMDB’s CEO stepping down after 35 years:
If you do the math, then yes, that means IMDB is older than the web. It started on Usenet on the rec.arts.movies newsgroup during the late Cretaceous.
Who knew? Not me. I have only found myself on IMDB on rare occasions when I was looking up something or other, so I never thought much about the site’s origins. It is neat that what remains a well-known and highly trafficked site has such humble origins.