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Is Flickr taking the Instagram concept a step further? If you visit the photo sharing site today, you might think your photos have been tossed back to the primitive days of the 1980s.
A quick click on an icon on the bottom right of a Flickr photo page first results in an ancient-sounding noise, just as your photo is turned into a pointillist fantasy from the days when image sensors were held together by figurative bailing wire and masking tape.