The two exchanged databases and began work on a WWW-based database. cite web | title = remembering peter van aarle | url = | publisher = IAFD | accessdate = ] In 1993, he began contributing to the Usenet newsgroup, where he met Dan Abend. 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. The predecessor to IAFD was an email- and FTP-accessible database of adult film actresses called Abserver that had been created by Dan Abend in 1993. release is available and the film concerned is presented as bearing the information about the U.S. Films produced by non-American porn industry are found on the database if a U.S.
It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, in that it is open to the public and is searchable. The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to the American adult industry, covering actors, actresses, directors and movies.
