Every review was manually searched for, read and quoted.” Every page was manually assembled using HTML. “ Rotten Tomatoes was a side project I worked on in the evenings.” He single-handedly designed and coded the site in just two weeks. So why not put them in one place? Duong already had a full-time job, he says. He was inspired by his love of Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies and would scour the internet looking for reviews of them. It was into this climate that Senh Duong launched Rotten Tomatoes – known in the business as RT – a site that has transformed both worlds, although nobody seems quite sure if it has done so for better or worse.ĭuong’s idea was simple – to compile movie reviews – and it still drives Rotten Tomatoes. The movie world of 1998 was also somewhat different: the box office was ruled by meteorite movies and Adam Sandler Harvey Weinstein was an Oscar winner and The Avengers was a lame, retro spy comedy with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. Apple computers looked like boiled sweets, and we dialled up to “surf the net”, having installed the software via CD-Rom. Google was a fresh rival to Alta Vista and Lycos. T wenty years ago, the internet was a very different place.
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