JPEG Uploader Gallery
September 2007
Link: http://www.jpguploader.com/
We used to have a site (uploader.net) where people could sign-up and upload whatever pictures they wanted. It started off as a pretty simple ASP website then grew into a network of similar PHP sites. The main site was purely an upload facility with a gallery that was searchable and categorizable. Each user could login and edit their uploads and make up to a certain number of uploads per day. The images were displayed in HTML pages and we developed a way of displaying the images in the page so that it should not be possible to hotlink them.
Other smaller uploader sites were a “scaled” uploader (scaled.uploader.net) where you could crop, scale and distort your JPEG and a facility to create your own webpage by filling ion an HTML form.
All of these sites were originally developed between 2002 and 2003 and were the experimental arm of Shortdark. The main image uploader where both JPEGs and GIFs could be uploaded to the galleries had around 4,000 users and at the time we stopped accepting uploads over 10,000 uploads had been made.
As you can see, the diversity of uploads was vast. Anything from photos of pets, cars and groups of friends, to computer screenshots, celebrity photos, scanned drawings, 3D models and pictures that people had made on their computers.
Today, there are many different free uploading services so the need for this kind of website is not as great but we have started to make an archive of some of the images that were uploaded. We’ve started off as JPEGs only. The gallery system is similar but the coding is much improved from the 2002 code and improvements will be made to the “look” and functionality of the site in due course.
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