I remember when ImageShack was the best of all the bad options. TinyPic and PhotoBucket were super slow, and I remember popular forums back then either didn’t support image uploads, or they were even slower to load than external hosts. So much internet history has been lost to “this image has exceeded its bandwidth limit” placeholders from PhotoBucket and TinyPic.

Imgur really did change everything.

The disabled hotlink images are the only reason I know imageshack exists. How’s that for marketing?

And has an interstitial ad to wait through before upload. I don't think even ImageShack thought of that one