2018-04-21 (Saturday)

Don’t ask.

The arrival of instagram and snap and facebook pics signaled the death of this type of cultural history. flickr had always been about open APIs, UIs that empowered curation of sets of images by anyone [and not inside walled garden, thanks Pinterest], and photos as social objects.

I love how I exhibit my momentary inability to express in the grammar of that very sentence! But seriously, when building the very first bits of flickr, we opted for cc license be default and a folksonomically tagged searchable archive to enable a generous cultural record.