Well, I don't know about that. I had pictures on Flickr for a long time, it used to be free to put pictures there. I also used Photobucket, and some other free picture site to store pictures, but I can't remember what it was. Then a few years ago Flickr said it would no longer be free to post pictures. Maybe you could post a few for free, I don't remember that either, but I was already way past the limit for free if it was. So either I would lose all the pictures I had already stored there, or I could pay the ransom and keep on using Flickr, so that's what I did. I have to pay a yearly fee, I think it's about $40. So that's why I use Flickr all the time now, and post pictures there willy-nilly.
Oh, webshots was the other site I used. I don't know if that's even in existence anymore, pretty sure all those pictures are gone, but they're probably still on the PC.