☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“My obsession began, really, with <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RidleyScott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RidleyScott</span></a>’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alien</span></a>,” he says. “I watched it every single day for the two weeks that we had it – 14 times in 14 days.”</p><p>“<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Columns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columns</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/lists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lists</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> are the essential ingredients of Needham’s life. “I’ve been tracking every movie that I’ve seen since the first of January, 1980,” he tells me.</p><p>The 58-year-old Mancunian began his working life as a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ComputerEngineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerEngineer</span></a> at <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HewlettPackard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HewlettPackard</span></a>, and owes his career and his fortune to two other pieces of technology: <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/VCRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VCRs</span></a> and the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a>. But it all started in his bedroom, as a 14-year-old, with a simple <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/notebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notebook</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/pen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pen</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IMDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMDB</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ColNeedham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColNeedham</span></a> / 🎥🎬📼 <<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/imdb-founder-on-how-a-14-day-alien-bender-gave-birth-to-an-internet-monster-20250820-p5mocu.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/culture/movies/imdb</span><span class="invisible">-founder-on-how-a-14-day-alien-bender-gave-birth-to-an-internet-monster-20250820-p5mocu.html</span></a>> / <<a href="https://archive.md/u5kqW" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/u5kqW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>></p>