Flickr Celebrates Their 5th Anniversary + The Oldest Image On Flickr

by Scott Beale on February 10, 2009 · 2 comments

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Happy 5th anniversary to Flickr, which launched on this date at ETech 2004 during the “Virtual Worlds, Distributed Interaction: Extending a MMOG with Remote Scripting, IM, Mobiles and REST” panel. Speaking of which, here’s the oldest surviving image in the Flickr database, ID #74 which was uploaded by Cal Henderson on December 15, 2003.

image via Cal Henderson

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1 Matt Haughey February 10, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Whoa, it looks like I have image #113 as my oldest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/113/

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2 Dinah February 10, 2009 at 8:18 pm

More fun is the earliest non “test image” picture, the fabulous Dos Pesos!
http://flickr.com/photos/caterina/88/

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