Intruder goes Pro on Flickr !

At last the inevitable happened. I got a pro account on flickr. Thanks to Anish’s credit card, I was able to do it in seconds.

It was in September 2004, to be more precise on 22nd of September, 2004, that I signed up to the flickr.com. I had my new camera purchased in August 2004, and had some pictures with me which I wanted to upload. As everyone else Yahoo! was one of my main preferences. But I don’t know why, I dint like Yahoo Albums. So I switched to my Webshots.

Webshots desktop wallpaper switcher and gadgets were very famous then. Almost all home PCs had Webshots installed because it had the calendar with good downloadable wallpapers.

I used to read lots of computer magazines those days. Digit, Chip, PC Quest etc. Digit was my favourite. Fortunately for me one of the articles it covered was on photo upload. There were two or three websites mentioned in it. And I tried them one by one. I don’t remember now which all they were. And finally I choose Flickr.com. A decision that I believe that was the perfect.

Flickr had the introductory 3 months free Pro status. Those days the simple and elegant interface gave me a sense that it was intended to be acquired by Google. So I signed up with my Gmail address. But that was a dream that never came true.

Having no restriction to say, the 1 GB or 200 MB transfer limit it was those days I remember. I may be wrong because I never had used it up for a month. And Infinite sets and photos were on cards. But I never used them. I knew those days are being numbered. And getting a paid account on internet was then a distant dream. That too paying in dollars with a credit card was simply Unthinkable to me.

Flickr grew at real pace and was later brought by Yahoo! Inc. I wish they had given Pro account to the existing users for a lifetime or perhaps for 6 months to be more practical.That too didn’t happen. My limit of 200 images were exceeded and my old photos were lost. But for few days I could enjoy it from the archives sections. Later they found out that too 

I lost my Red dragon, My Kayal and was loosing more worthy ones. I couldn’t bear it. I wanted a pro account. I wanted a credit card. I was desperate. That was when it clicked to me : the cost was affordable why can a card stop me ? And with Help of the card from Anish. I am now a Pro





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