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Flickr

Flickr

Flickr

2004

10

February

Flickr was launched by Ludicorp.

2004

09

December

Flickr’s service was widely used by photo researchers and bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media platforms.

2005

09

March

Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr.

2007

03

May

Yahoo! broadcasted that Yahoo! Photos would close down on September 20, 2007, and users were encouraged to migrate to Flickr.

2006

16

May

Flickr upgraded its services from "beta" to "gamma" status.

2006

13

December

Flickr upgraded upload limits on free accounts to 100 MB a month from 20 MB.

2009

01

January

Flickr partnered with Getty Images.

2014

25

March

Flickr had the first major site redesign, and introduced a "Justified View" close-spaced photo layout browsed via "infinite scrolling." Other features such as 1 terabyte of free storage for all users, a scrolling home page, and an updated Android app were introduced.

2015

07

May

Yahoo! overhauled the site, adding a revamped Camera Roll, new upload feature, and upgraded the site's apps. The new upload application was made available for Macs, Windows, and mobile devices.

Flickr was transferred from its owner Yahoo to SmugMug with 100+ million accounts and billions of photos and videos.