Throwback

cousinslick · (6374)

You used to be able to find nice pictures on Flickr. I used to spend a lot of time on Flickr.

Here's a link to a Google Drive with a few of the older pictures collected from Flickr: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...exs4EGDajP

And here are contact sheets for what's in the folders on the Google Drive.

200x (before 2009)

2009

2010

2011

2012

(They're not all from Flickr. Some of them are from SmugMug. Some of them are from Webshots (RIP). Some of them are from random blogs. But most of them are from Flickr.)

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This is a fantastic collection, thank you for sharing it!

wrathoflego · (549)

The good old days of Flickr.

ribbyuk · (89)

@cousinslick You might not be the hero the World deserves right now, but you’re definitely the one we need!

These are amazing, they take me right back

chops79 · (230)

I used to look through Webshots. That place is long gone and unfortunately I never saved anything.

auto_asphyx · (992)

hero status. back in the mid-naughts i'd comb through public photobucket and flickr accounts to find pregnant pics. reminds me of those days before i was more tech-savvy.

thank you!

cousinslick · (6374)

And in all that I couldn't find the ones I was looking for, so I dusted off an ancient backup and eventually found a few.

At some point the sorting hat marked them for deletion because they were too small. Pixels being expensive back in the day. And so they went away.

But now pixels are cheap and we can enslave AI to make small pictures big, so a new folder on the Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...exs4EGDajP

Salvaged (contains both the original pictures and mostly decent 4x upscales)

Oh, and that ancient backup also had a bunch of pictures set aside for cold storage, so I may have a few more to post once I'm done sorting through them.

bluejay123456 · (135)

Dude thank you for the share. As the thread said this was a throwback.