But if you care about the history of the culture of the internet and the forces that are shaping its future, you should note this moment as an important one. This fact may be largely undisturbing to you if you never used the platform to store a significant amount of your photos. They’ll bear almost no resemblance to the entire basements they once were.
Now, free Flickr accounts are, if anything, one extra filing cabinet. The company, which has been financially troubled for some time and was sold by Yahoo to photo-hosting service SmugMug in April 2018, will discontinue its free terabyte of storage for all users and started deleting files from accounts that exceed the new cap of 1,000 photos, starting March 12 (the deadline has been extended following outcry from users).
Flickr, the photo storage website that had, at its peak, close to 90 million users, is disintegrating, and it’s taking 15 years of internet history with it.
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