Imagebin.ca

Imagebin.ca provides quick and easy image hosting, originally designed as a companion to Pastebin.ca for sharing screenshots and images alongside code snippets.

Why It Exists

Back in 2007, sharing images online was surprisingly annoying. You could email them (and hit attachment limits). You could use early social media (and lose quality). You could pay for hosting. Or you could use one of the sketchy free hosts that wrapped everything in ads.

I needed something simple: upload an image, get a link, share it. No accounts, no friction, no nonsense. So I built it.

Features

Simple image upload interface - Drag and drop or click to upload
Automatic thumbnail generation - For previews and embedding
Direct image links - No wrapper pages, just the image
No account required - For basic uploads
Short URLs - ibin.co for easy sharing

The Survivor

Imagebin.ca is the last survivor of the original *bin.ca family. While Pastebin.ca, Filebin.ca, and TURL.ca were shut down around 2019, Imagebin.ca has kept running.

Why this one? Partly inertia—it was already running and didn’t require much maintenance. Partly because image hosting is still useful in a way that pastebin services became less so (GitHub Gists, Discord code blocks, etc. filled that niche). And partly because shutting down a service that people are using feels wrong.

History

Launched: May 2007 (domain registered May 18, 2007)
Still running: 18+ years of continuous operation

Why It Exists

Features

The Survivor

History

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