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3 Billionth Picture Uploaded to Flickr

blog.flickr.net — Flickr has just had it's 3 billionth upload. Congrats on such awesome service and scalability.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 4, 2008

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  • carbonetc, on 11/03/2008, -3/+118Good thing the three billionth photo just happened to be SFW.
  • inactive, on 11/03/2008, -8/+71just another 697 billion more, and you've got yourself a WallStreet Bailout. Just sayin...
  • Obamanist, on 11/04/2008, -0/+57no way was this the picture

    they just picked an artsy one #3 billion was probaly some drunk person
  • Viper786, on 11/04/2008, -8/+44it's over 9000!!
  • arcticsoft, on 11/04/2008, -1/+273 million != 3 billion
  • saunders45, on 11/04/2008, -4/+29Of that 3 million, 1.75 million are of cats, 750,000 of digg comments, and 500,000 of the 'awesomest HDR photos' you'll see all day...
  • orlyfactor, on 11/04/2008, -2/+23Wow...it's a door.
  • revrev, on 11/04/2008, -1/+1610 billion on facebook, though most of those are of drunk kids.
  • theadvinci, on 11/04/2008, -0/+14I wonder what their bandwidth costs are :P
  • WeaponAlpha, on 11/04/2008, -0/+13You noticed they spelled million with a 'b' right?
  • kingjames128, on 11/03/2008, -0/+12haha, what a connection
  • lornefs, on 11/04/2008, -0/+12Damn, did I miss the 1 Billionth and 2 Billionth announcement?
  • veriix, on 11/04/2008, -0/+11oh, I see it now
  • Totz83, on 11/04/2008, -1/+12Stone the ***** crows, it's a door
  • centran, on 11/04/2008, -0/+9no kidding.
    I was just thinking that thank God it was something artistic. I am so glad I never uploaded my Halloween party photos. If it was something stupid then that person would be harassed so much. The purists on flickr don't like personal photos.
  • mattvogt, on 11/03/2008, -0/+9so any guesses to the amount of storage all of them are using or how much they add regularly?
  • dogfood, on 11/04/2008, -0/+9Given our current monetary policy it will soon be 1:1
  • inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+81 USD equals 0 IND?

    OK. Here's 0 internet dollars. I'll take 1 billion USD please.
  • cyrusuncc, on 11/04/2008, -1/+9needs more cowbell
  • sockpuppets, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7What is the internet dollar to real dollar conversion ratio nowadays?
  • inajeep, on 11/04/2008, -1/+8This isn't that kind of site.
  • saunders45, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7It's the 4th of November.....
  • saunders45, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6Doh.... that's what I meant... math is great...
  • saunders45, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6Well sorry Mr. Perfect. I guess I forgot that you never make a mistake...
  • Huangism, on 11/04/2008, -3/+9this should really be classified as who gives a *****
  • tmyprod, on 11/04/2008, -1/+6Personally, I prefer myfootupyourass.com
  • LinuxCobra, on 11/04/2008, -0/+5I am glad you cleared this up.
  • MeatMountain, on 11/04/2008, -0/+5And it was a captioned picture of a cat doing something human-like.
  • tehchicken, on 11/04/2008, -1/+6On the 4th of November 2008, phenom2k7 was seriously pwned.
  • happytedium, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4Bit of a depressing photo for the 3 billionth. At least it's not embarrassing though.
  • joshhan, on 11/04/2008, -1/+5picassaweb
  • SpruceGoose13, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4*doorbell
  • inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4I bet their bandwidth gets slammed?

    I got nothin.
  • EvoIII8, on 11/04/2008, -0/+494.3579%
  • slvrbullet87, on 11/04/2008, -1/+5And the rest of them are girls in that top down make my ***** look big pose... you know the one i am talking about
  • tushyd, on 11/04/2008, -0/+4I love flickr, but it's been getting kinda slow lately for me. I've tried on several different computers and networks....
  • WillSunrider, on 11/04/2008, -1/+4Dugg down since it wasn't a teenage girl uploading the latest picture of her victorias secret shopping spree on her cellphone
  • RoQu3, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3this is the 3 billion pic that they aprove
  • Swivelstick, on 11/05/2008, -0/+3But it's the 5th here, so just depends where ya live
  • isukeyo, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3Buried for all of them not being on one page!
  • AmericanGunner, on 11/04/2008, -0/+3door pun?
  • Maddoktor2, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2Obviously Photoshopped...
  • y2kery, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2Hmm, I counted 3,000,000,002
  • jmb93, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2i'm so glad it's something sweet...like a DOOR.
  • flidge, on 11/04/2008, -1/+3i would find it interesting if people also listed their account with their comment, could see some interesting stuff that you wouldnt normally see :)
  • Totz83, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2knock knock?
  • ahpro, on 11/04/2008, -1/+3I was hoping it would be something like a Spore penis. :-(
  • AmericanGunner, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2you've just opened to door to a whole new world of jokes....


    ..me neither.
  • wassim2k, on 11/04/2008, -1/+3Flickr still sucks when it comes to browsing albums, and viewing features.
  • jtbell04, on 11/05/2008, -0/+2Myspace?
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