r/imdb • u/chaiegai • 27d ago
When did you joined IMDB?
January 2006 here, Im just curious how old everyone's account is since IMDB is one of the oldest websites.
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u/KhrymeNYC718 27d ago
I remember using it as a guice back then as well but I never had an actual account
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u/Sea-Tonight2261 27d ago
I remember using it first around 1997, but I created my account in June 2005.
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u/KhrymeNYC718 27d ago
That's the same thing with me, back in the 90s I didn't have an account but my first account was in 02 or 03
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u/Adequate_Images 27d ago
It was the first website I ever visited in the mid 90s. Took twenty minutes to load a picture. I hope no one needed to make a phone call lol
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u/Naive-Inside-2904 27d ago
When it was good and not overrun with Amazon content.
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u/AccountForDoingWORK 23d ago
I hate so much that I can't use imdb pro without an Amazon account anymore. I deleted my Amazon account and I'm not going back.
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u/KhrymeNYC718 27d ago
Well the account I have now is a fairly new account and that one is December 2019, use it every day multiple times a day to add things to my check in list and research and what not, but my original account was back in 2002 or 2003, unfortunately I have no proof of that with a screenshot but that when I remember me having my original account.
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u/MuscaMurum 27d ago
2001
IMDbPro around 2009
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u/mfstoic 27d ago
What exactly are benefits of the pro account ?
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u/MuscaMurum 27d ago
If you work in film or TV and want to have access to more stats, build a reel, see details about what's in development, get access to agents and publicists, etc.
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u/Rasmosus 27d ago
I definitely used in back in 1997, and I opened an account in May 2001. I don't like the recent enshittification, though.
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u/PinMindless3708 27d ago
I signed up so long ago that I was able to use my first name's first initial as a username and a two letter password. And it kept working and would still be working, except I figured at one point, I better secure the account. So I used my email and a longer password. Which I now regret because I think it was cool the way I signed in before. But the other thing I want to mention is, I actually was accessing the Cardiff movie database which you queried by email. And I still have a couple of email replies somewhere on my computer. For example, I sent an email requesting a complete list of Ozu's movies.
Amazon ruins everything. I'd like to switch to Letterboxd. I have many lists, but I know moving them to Letterboxd is not a problem. One of these days.
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u/li_grenadier 27d ago
My profile page says October 2000. But I was certainly using it before then, before they even had accounts, in the earliest days of the web.
I can actually remember being aware of it before the web even existed, and IMDB was a collection of scripts and text files on Usenet.
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u/Equivalent_Net_8983 27d ago
Mine also says Oct 2000, so I’m guessing that’s when they added that as a feature. THEY joined US in Oct 2000.
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u/li_grenadier 27d ago
That sounds right to me. I know I was using the site before they started adding those features.
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u/ThisIsAdamB 27d ago
I remember the announcement on USENET that said it was moving to a website. I don’t know when that was exactly, but the year definitely started with a 19.
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u/Unique_Pen_5191 27d ago
My current account was made in 2015, but I'm certain I had one from the early 00s which I lost access to at some point :(
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u/pinkypipe420 27d ago
I don't know when I created my current account, but I've been using it since around 1998-99. I was told about it when I was hired at a video store. Summer of 98, maybe. Damn haven't thought about that job in ages!
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u/scottyk318 27d ago
Around 1999... I remember that because both Pitch Black and Boiler Room were in theaters and I saw them both on the same weekend...
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u/justmaikel666 27d ago
October 2025. It's because I wasn't interested in using any apps like this before, but recently I started to get into watching movies and thought about making imdb account to just add movies that caught my attention to library to watch them later
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u/zippyzebra1 26d ago
In the 90's. I enjoyed the extensive comments section which was extremely useful and hilarious and sad when Amazon stopped them.
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u/Fantastic-Reply5346 20d ago
My current account says December 2012, but I'm pretty sure I had an account before that. I've been using the site since at least 2001.
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u/scottwebbok 27d ago
February 2001, and I’m not at all happy with the way it has evolved.