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    Second chances

    Mar 24, 2020 5 minutes

    April 20th – a date to fear? Adolf Hitler is born in 1889; my sister Jennifer embarks on an ultimately disastrous marriage in 1990. Or a date to cheer? Best known for his role as USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu, actor George Takei is born in 1937; and Barbra Streisand records We’ve Only Just Begun in 1971.

    April 20th: family-owned photo-sharing platform SmugMug purchases Flickr in 2018. Do I fear or cheer the announcement? I joined Flickr in 2009. I joined it again in February 2010, July 2010 and in 2015. I could never remember my Yahoo login details. My myriad accounts remained in limbo. My profile picture a floating head up in the cloud.

    Founded in 2004, Flickr played a core role in the cultural and social life of the internet. Friendships developed as people shared photographs and others responded to them. Flickr was sold a year later to Yahoo for around $35

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