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

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.

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.