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Just to add a couple facts to the context of IMDb being older than the browser...

According to http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/fbrowser.html the first web browser prototype was developed in late 1990/early 1991. Mosaic was released in March of 1993.



The extremely short time scales involved in www history always amaze me. Was there any other invention in human history that was so widely used in such a short time?


www history isn't as interesting as Internet history or computer history.




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