TextAmerica was one of the first online photo album

Image hosting service

An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image....

 or moblog sites that allowed users to upload pictures directly from a digital camera

Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...

 or camera phone

Camera phone

A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture still photographs . Since early in the 21st century the majority of mobile phones in use are camera phones....

or images manipulated with photo editing software to a personal page. Originally a free site, TextAmerica began charging membership fees in July 2006, deleting content uploaded to old free accounts some months after that. It closed in December 2007. The domain name is now being used by a different company & service.

External links

• Original announcement - Textamerica goes fee-only, will delete all old, free moblogs from boingboing.net, June 20, 2006