PBase.com - History

PBase.com was conceived in July 1999 by Chuck “Slug” Neel, a programmer and photographer who wanted to find a site that suited his and others’ need to share and hot their digital and scanned film photos.

The site officially went online in August 1999, as photobase.org and the site has progressively grown since then. Later, the site name was changed to its current name, PBase, and Emily Neel, came on board to support the website as well.

The site’s motto and goal is to “be the best place on the web to display photos.”

Currently, the site has around 42 million photos. Around 45% of the users are from outside the US. (For example, there are 1329 accounts from users in Iceland.) The site is also rated, 628th, by Alexa.com Internet Traffic ratings.