The Internet Adult Film Database IAFD is an online database of information pertaining to, in United States , the pornography industry : actors , actresses , directors , studios , distributors and pornographic films. IAFD itself was started by Peter van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since , when he began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World. 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". After Wilhelm left the Internet to join the military, the site eventually fell victim to link rot. 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.