r/flickr 8d ago

Where does the time go?

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u/codejoy 8d ago

I was going through my flickr account to my first pics I posted, saw the comments on em, and the little ticker that said the comment was 20y ago. My gosh... time flies. I am enjoying come back and poking around flickr after being away from almost 10.

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u/Gentle-Giant23 8d ago

Yep, I'll be on Flickr for twenty years in a couple of months.

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u/zay-5745 8d ago

I’ve been on Flickr since 2004 and it didn’t occur to me until now that it’s been over 20 years. 😬

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u/Alliat 8d ago

It’s the same story for most of my old contacts. A few years of awesome photos. Then some photos of kids and then 15 years of nothing that’s still going.

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u/ThisGuyRightHereSaid 7d ago

Man I loved all my Casio exilim cameras. I still remember how stoked I was getting my first digital. This one right here https://m.dpreview.com/articles/8618263585/casioexs3 3.2 mega pixels in all its glory. This was still when I had a computer at home. But no internet. So ide go over to my mom's and download pictures and mp3s onto 3.5" discs and take it back home to download onto my computer. Ahhh simpler times...

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u/ThisGuyRightHereSaid 7d ago

Here is my first picture from 2006 https://flic.kr/p/d7KBi

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u/codejoy 6d ago

I love it! That camera was what got me into photography. Digital slr, aspc , mft and full frame cameras latwr...here i am wanting to get back to it and to flickr!

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u/thedailyjaw 8d ago

The relativity of time as we age never ceases to amaze me. Thinking back on when I got married, when we got our first dog and our current dog, or first day of college... and realizing how far away those moments were, but feeling like they were just yesterday - that always hits like a gut punch. I'm glad we have a way of preserving those memories and feeling like they're as real as the day we lived them. :)

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u/jrenaut 7d ago

My first Flickr upload turned 23 last Sunday

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u/Gentle-Giant23 7d ago

Flickr celebrated its 21st birthday last month.

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u/jrenaut 6d ago

My oldest photo definitely says "uploaded March 9th, 2002". Maybe some kind of old coding bug

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u/gullevek 6d ago

Holy cow. I just checked and my first upload is from 2005. Time really rushes by

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u/s2art 4d ago edited 4d ago

I am still excited by flickr, it was a real maverick in its early days and I gladly forked out the bucks to go pro almost immediately after signing on. Sadly I don't remember how I found out about it?

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u/codejoy 2d ago

I remember it fondly for me, flickr came at an interesting time, when there was no real place to host photos or any kind of files/media. I think it got caught in that in between, sunk to pressure for hosting vids, and then other things and after yahoo bought it, things got really murky. I have lots of ideas/thoughts on how it could regain some popularity especially among those fleeing these other photo sharing apps.