Internet Adult Film Database
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Type of site
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Adult site, movie database |
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| Available in | English |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 7,395 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 1995 |
| Current status | Online |
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Content license
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Proprietary |
The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to, in America, the pornography industry: actors, actresses, directors, and pornographic films. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, in that it is open to the public and is searchable. Films produced by the non-American pornographic industry are found on the database if a U.S. release is available and the film concerned is presented as bearing the information about the U.S. release, not the original one.
The predecessor to IAFD was an email- and -accessible database of adult film actresses called Abserver that had been created by Dan Abend in 1993.
IAFD itself was started by Peter van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since 1981, when he began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World. In 1993, he began contributing to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.movies, where he met Dan Abend. The two exchanged databases and began work on a WWW-based database.
Van Aarle later collaborated on this Web database with Ron Wilhelm, who went by the pseudonym of "Heretic". The first version of the IAFD was brought on-line in 1995 by the programming efforts of Wilhelm, who used the project as a training ground for SGML programming which he was learning in college. After Wilhelm left the Internet to join the military, the site eventually fell victim to link rot.
In the fall of 1998, Van Aarle was at a trade show with Jeff Vanzetti, who asked if Van Aarle would be interested in resurrecting the IAFD — this time under its own domain. Vanzetti was looking for a project on which to teach himself on-line database programming using SQL Server, and this seemed like a natural fit, since they were both co-moderators of the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME), and members of the newsgroup would often lament about the passing of the original Internet Adult Film Database.
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