From exactly the two years ago today, the Instagram photo tested
which upload to an app called “Codename”. After three months later, Instagram launched to the
public in October 2010.
Before the bought by Facebook for $1 billion, before
the 585 likes per second, before the 28 million registered users, there was
this Instagram photo
of a foot and a dog.
The shot was posted in a blog post on Monday by Instagram
HQ, celebrating their two years to the day of the first photo uploaded to the
photo-sharing network’s predecessor, Codename. After a couple of years, and
feet and dogs have become Instagram mainstays along with brunch cats &
bridges.
But this Monday wasn’t the photo’s first appearance on
the web. In the year of Nov. 2011 post to Quora
asks about the granddaddy of all Instagram shots.
Jessica Zollman evangelist
responses & links to the shot within Instagram community & also says it
was snapped by Instagram’s co-founder and CEO, Kevin Systrom.
One of the Instagram community managers, Josh Riedel
tells us that the foot belongs to Systrom’s girlfriend. Its identity and owner
are unknown still now, but it was found at this Mexican taco stand.
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