Flickr was launched on February 10, 2004, by Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. The service emerged from tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game.

Not-so-humble-brag: Flickr is the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed imagery on earth. Come get inspired and join the fun.

Feb 10, 2014 · It was a tool for sharing photos, and they called it Flickr. What they showed that day wasn’t quite the Flickr that was soon to become a phenomenon. Instead, it was a service that melded chat...

Mar 3, 2025 · Flickr, photo- and video-sharing website owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco. Ad-supported and free to the public, it allows users to upload photos or videos from their computers to share online either publicly or privately.

Feb 10, 2024 · Flickr is celebrating its 20th anniversary. From the early days of the internet through to today, the photo-sharing site that is now home to everyone from amateur photographers through NASA has...

Dec 18, 2024 · Unlike Facebook and Instagram, where every third post tries to sell you a miracle gadget, Flickr offers a blissfully ad-free experience—if you’re a Pro subscriber (or use an AdBlock, cough, cough). There is no clutter, no distractions, just …

Feb 2, 2024 · The celebration of Flickr’s 20th birthday begins today! To celebrate this huge milestone, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to explore all of the technological and structural moments…

Last Updated on 02/21/2025 by Chris Gampat. Today, Flickr announced a major update to its platform in the form of the new Discover page. The change will help put more of what makes Flickr special ...

Feb 6, 2019 · Flickr, the photo storage website that had, at its peak, close to 90 million users, is disintegrating, and it’s taking 15 years of internet history with it.

Sep 3, 2024 · The date taken is when the photo was actually taken by the camera, but do note that both date taken and date uploaded can be changed/edited by the photo owner on flickr and if these changes are made, it is no longer reflected on the photo page that a change was made, so using flickr to ascertain any date can be totally inaccurate.