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Social cataloging applications

  • DestructoidYanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author, launched Destructoid as a personal blog in March 2006. He needed the site to attend the Electronic…
  • IMDbIn 1987, Col Needham began recording details of every film he watched as a hobby while working as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard in Bristol.
  • MobyGamesJim Leonard and Brian Hirt launched MobyGames on the 1st of March 1999. They began with a simple goal to share information about computer games with a wider…
  • GameFAQsOn the 5th of November 1995, a programmer named Jeff Veasey launched a small website called the Video Game FAQ Archive. The site originally hosted just ten…
  • MyAnimeListThe year 2004 marked the birth of a digital archive for anime and manga fans. Garrett Gyssler launched the site in November of that year under the name…
  • GoodreadsOtis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler met while studying at Stanford University, where he pursued engineering and she studied English.