If you missed Part 1 of this history, you can find it via the following link…
The History of Online Photo Sharing: Part 1
If you’ve already read Part 1, let’s step forward into the mid noughties…
2004
It was in the wake of Photobucket’s arrival that ventures such as ImageShack and ImageVenue followed – also offering free hotlinking to big sharing platforms (i.e. the forums). Indeed, 2004 brought a wave of these new, free, image publishing hosts into being. ImageShack became a huge player, but it was Flickr, born in mid February 2004, that really took things to the next level… Continue reading The History of Online Photo Sharing: Part 2