02-11-2025, 09:34 AM
10 February - A Doll A Day 2025:
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Flickr was unveiled on 10 February 2004 by a small Vancouver-based game development company called Ludicorp. By the end of the year, Ludicorp and Flickr were purchased by California-based Internet technology giant Yahoo!
Over subsequent years, Yahoo! was absorbed by Verizon, who attempted to merge Yahoo! (and as a result, Flickr) with the previously purchased AOL under a parent company called Oath.
After making or considering a variety of changes to the Flickr interface, membership rules, and fee structure, and ultimately considering shutting down Flickr altogether, Oath sold Flickr to the much smaller online photo hosting service SmugMug in 2018.
From the outset, Flickr has offered various tiers of membership, including "free" and a paid "pro" level. I have been a paid "pro" member of Flickr since I joined in June 2005. I feel SmugMug has done a solid job stabilizing Flickr and working to return the site to its original format as a photo hosting-and-sharing site with an easily navigable social element, and thus I have continued to support Flickr with a paid membership for nearly 20 years.
The Pinky:st figures have been along for the entire ride. A Pinky Street photo was among my first bulk upload to Flickr, and was the first newly taken photo I posted to Flickr.
10 February - A Doll A Day 2025
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Congratulations, Flickr on 21 Years: 2004 – 2025
Flickr was unveiled on 10 February 2004 by a small Vancouver-based game development company called Ludicorp. By the end of the year, Ludicorp and Flickr were purchased by California-based Internet technology giant Yahoo!
Over subsequent years, Yahoo! was absorbed by Verizon, who attempted to merge Yahoo! (and as a result, Flickr) with the previously purchased AOL under a parent company called Oath.
After making or considering a variety of changes to the Flickr interface, membership rules, and fee structure, and ultimately considering shutting down Flickr altogether, Oath sold Flickr to the much smaller online photo hosting service SmugMug in 2018.
From the outset, Flickr has offered various tiers of membership, including "free" and a paid "pro" level. I have been a paid "pro" member of Flickr since I joined in June 2005. I feel SmugMug has done a solid job stabilizing Flickr and working to return the site to its original format as a photo hosting-and-sharing site with an easily navigable social element, and thus I have continued to support Flickr with a paid membership for nearly 20 years.
The Pinky:st figures have been along for the entire ride. A Pinky Street photo was among my first bulk upload to Flickr, and was the first newly taken photo I posted to Flickr.
10 February - A Doll A Day 2025
They're not dolls, they're action figures!