Even its name, with the missing final vowel, provided inspiration to countless other startups.Īpril 26: A version of the site designed for viewing on mobile phones. No Web 2.0 site was more important than Flickr it debuted just six days after Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, and at first, it wasn’t clear that Butterfield and Fake’s photo-sharing site wasn’t the bigger deal. It was the whole idea.īack in 2004, the sort of rich online environment for social interaction that Flickr and other newcomers were inventing was so new that people started talking about “Web 2.0,” a term that started out sounding futuristic but soon became redundant, since its influence was everywhere. But with those sites, the online sharing was a come-on for their real business, which was selling prints of digital photos. Actually, Flickr arrived years after the first three big names in the category: Ofoto, Shutterfly and Snapfish, all of which debuted in 1999. Enjoy the highlights from 2020’s top 25 and explore the top photos of the decade for a delightful throwback journey.Founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, who were married at the time, Ludicorp didn’t invent photo sharing.
Thank you for sharing your images with the world and inspiring us all to take great pictures no matter how broad or narrow our interests. We take pride in being a global community united by our shared passion for photography. We also want to take this opportunity to celebrate the geographical diversity of our top photographers, representing 13 different countries. And while many of the photos that made it to the list come from DSLR and mirrorless cameras, one of the top images this year is an aerial view captured with a drone camera. Landscape and wildlife photography continue to be two of the most appreciated genres in our community, but we also saw some outstanding portraits, candid street shots, and nightscape composites. With that in mind, we’re excited to continue our tradition of showcasing 25 photos from around the world that our community loved the most.įrom the many photos shared on Flickr this year, we chose to highlight a selection of images that received the most engagement in the form of views, comments, and faves, while accounting for a diverse range of topics. In 2020, photography gave us a welcome escape from the stresses of daily life and a chance to document the strange, pandemic-stricken world we all found ourselves in.
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