A History of Flickr

Ant writes "USA Today has an interesting look back at how Flickr was born. From the article 'Caterina Fake knew she was on to something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing. "It turned out the fun was in the photo sharing," she says. Fake scrapped the game. She and her programmer husband, Stewart Butterfield, transformed the project into Flickr. In less than two years, the photo-sharing site -- now owned by Internet giant Yahoo! -- has turned into one of the Web's fastest-growing properties.'"

Comments

Mailing address

[XanC]

She lives on 123 Fake Street.

Re:It's today's version of the slide projector

[mc bean]

Yea, because there aren't any voyeurs on the internet.

Re:wth

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Try using the left mouse button.

As a regular flickr users...

[CrackedButter]

I've come to realise that only 5% of the site is unsafe as well, mostly to do with porn not being porn but a man wearing suspenders over his legs and face squatting in disturbing poses.