New Delhi: Flickr, the popular online photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo, turned 10 on February 10. Yahoo last year had redesigned the Flickr website to emphasise photos rather than text or white space, as was the case previously. Photos are bigger and shared in full resolution rather than compressed into a lower quality.
The company offers users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes - enough to store more than 500,000 images at a resolution common to most smartphones.
Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Flickr, said, "It's exciting for me to celebrate Flickr's birthday! When we dreamed this photo site 10 years ago, we couldn't have imagined the impact it would have on digital photo sharing and the way it would connect people worldwide. I am proud of Flickr and excited for what's ahead."
Flickr was first to popularise the notion of Web site "tagging," the simple trick of applying short words or phrases to help other Web users find material of interest.
Flickr was founded in Vancouver, Canada by the husband-and-wife team of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield
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