This graph shows the total number of photos uploaded to Flickr over time. This logarithmic chart shows Flickr has grown exponentially, the amount of images increasing tenfold every year or so.
Flickr generates photo page URLs from your username (or gibberish user id number if you haven’t selected one) and the its ordinal number, 35,692nd uploaded photo, for example. It also keeps track, to the second, of when it was uploaded to their servers. This means anyone can generate this graph from their own private data.
I joined Flickr pretty close to its inception in Early 2004, after I got tipped off about it on Metafilter. The first photo I uploaded was number 10189 on March 12, 2004.
As of today there are over 355 million photos on Flickr.
GustavoG, a pretty prominent Flickr’r, had been updating this list of round millionth photos.
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