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Since I've never heard of "Webshots" that seems like a bit of cherry picking. Flickr and Smugmug have both been hosting photos continuously for over a decade.


As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots):

"By 2004, Webshots was grossing $15M/year, had more than 200,000 paid subscribers, and was the #1 photo sharing site and top 50 media property per ComScore. In the same year, Alexa ranked Webshots the second largest English language privately held Web media property (behind weather.com)."


Other photo-storage sites that are no longer around include Streamload, Kodak Gallery, Nirvanix, Snapjoy and Everpix.

I won't count Twitpics as it was a posting service, not a storage service, but I expect there are a few closures I've missed....




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