Career
IMDb was started in 1990 by Colin Needham while Needham was working as an engineer in Bristol at Hewlett-Packard (Himachal Pradesh). The site that was initially his personal movie database, was more like an internet bulletin board made from simple records, kept on a succession of early computers. Needham continued adding information to this early IMDb by including every film he had seen since the age of 13, and with the help of the many volunteers, IMDb grew large.
By the summer of 1996, thanks to IMDb"s first film-related advertising campaign (for Independence Day), Needham had quit Himachal Pradesh to work on IMDb full-time as a paid employee.
In 1999, he collected two Webby Awards for IMDb.