That's because, 23 years ago, Needham created the Internet Movie Database – a compendium of film and TV credits, connections, goofs and trivia.
The transition from community to commerce was much less bumpy for the Internet Movie Database, a compendium of movie trivia built largely by contributions from movie buffs around the world who gathered on the IMDb.com site.
With hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, of followers, it is one of the most widely read mailing lists on the Internet — an evolving compendium of computer failures, flaws and privacy issues that he has maintained and annotated with wry comments and the occasional pun.
But: this is representative of the astonishing fact that the internet, humankind's compendium of all knowledge useful and not, is being used as a tool to promote willful ignorance in a way that presumes social advantage.
It succeeds www.nyclink.org, created last year, and nyclink.org's predecessor, www.ci.nyc.ny.us, created in 1995, which had become a compendium of Internet information.
The Internet Broadway Database, a comprehensive compendium of casts, composers and collective creative companies is now online at www.ibdb.com.
WTO Law, Litigation & Policy: Sourcebook of Internet Material (K4610.M34 2007) is a compendium of important legal and policy documents made available on the Internet.
Whether it's Nicholas O'Brien's compendium of landscape-driven internet art or Philip Stearns' exploration of the visual glitch, these are all worth adding to your follow list.
Web Reports will generate a compendium of critically appraised critical care Internet utilities to bring some order to the chaos of the medical Internet.
This volume assembles some of the best scholars in the field of communication to produce a thoughtful compendium of research on the role of the internet in family life.
