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Thanks to all who have sent nice words remembering Peter. We’ve put together a small page — we’re not sure in which shape it will end up, but for now it’s a small rememberance and his take on the start of this site.

Peter van Aarle, curator of the Internet Adult Film Database, passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2005, after suffering a heart attack at his home in The Hague, Holland. He was 42. Details of a memorial service are not yet known. Watch this space for more details.

Peter started the IAFD “back in 1981/82 when I started watching porn movies (back then my hometown still had a cinema which showed porn movies, and only porn movies by the way, and that’s where I went).”

The site came on-line in its present incarnation and its present address in 1999, and his goal for the site was explained in an e-mail: “I basically want the IAFD to be the definitive porn movie database on the web. I’ve spent the past 18 years compiling this data, and I want all of the credit :-)”

The credit is his.

The IAFD will continue, in his memory. Volunteers have begun assembling updates. It will take us a little time to ramp up and try to fill the void left by Peter, but we promise to do our best.

A big warm welcome to SugarDVD who joins our banner rotation. They’re a Netflix type of rental service with a good selection — and anyone who uses Dani Woodward in their banners can’t be all bad.

If you’re gonna hotlink to our graphics, have the decency to drop a link back to us, thanking us. We’d appreciate it. It’s the right thing to do.

Even tho the feed validates, I’m told Safari has some issues with the RSS feed, so we tweaked the feed, and hopefully this will make it all work.