The story, rather fittingly, begins with a picture of a dog. Kevin Systrom's photograph of a stray dog sitting near a taco stand in Mexico is the first image ever shared on Instagram.
The app's co-founder captioned it 'test', and uploaded it a few months before his idea was launched to the public on October 6 The candid picture - which has been liked more than 93, times - was the culmination of an idea he formed with Mike Krieger, who he met while studying at Stanford University.
The pair were inspired by their shared love of technology and photography, and after abandoning a prototype app, they launched Instagram as a simple way to share good-looking, edited, photographs. It was an immediate success, gaining one million users in its first couple of months.
Some experts say it arrived at the perfect moment. At that time Facebook mobile wasn't very good at all and Twitter didn't have a way to share photos meaningfully," he says. It also launched at a time when mobile photography was becoming increasingly popular, and it may even have benefited from the relatively low quality of early phone cameras.
They hit the wave spot on. The company has ridden that wave ever since. Its unrelenting growth has continued year on year and, in June, Mr Systrom revealed that the app had reached one billion users. It has continued to evolve, introducing a number of features which have attracted new users and changed the way people use it. Its most high-profile change was introducing Stories, which allows people to post and watch temporary videos. In , Kevin Systrom, a year-old Stanford University graduate, was working at Nextstop, a travel recommendations startup.
While Systrom had no formal training in computer science, he learned to code on the nights and the weekends while working at Nextstop. He eventually built a prototype of a web app called Burbn, which was inspired by his taste for fine whiskeys and bourbons. The Burbn app allowed users to check in, post their plans, and share photos. Although at the time, location-based check-in apps were very popular, the photo-sharing feature of Burbn was very unique.
A crucial turning point came in March when Systrom attended a party for Hunch, a startup based in Silicon Valley. After showing them the prototype of his app, they decided to meet for coffee to discuss it further.
After their first meeting, Systrom decided to quit his job and focus on Burbn. This seed funding allowed Systrom to start building a team of people to support his venture; the first to join him was year-old Mike Krieger. Also a Stanford graduate, Krieger had previously worked as an engineer and user-experience designer at the social media platform Meebo.
The two knew each other from their time as students at Stanford. After Krieger joined, the two reassessed Burbn and decided to focus primarily on one thing: photographs specifically taken on mobile devices. They carefully studied leading apps in the photography category at that time. For Krieger and Systrom, the Hipstamatic app stood out to them because it was popular and had interesting features that you could apply to photographs, such as filters.
However, it lacked social media-sharing capabilities; Systrom and Krieger saw potential in building an app that bridged Hipstamatic and a social media platform like Facebook.
They took a step backward and stripped Burbn down to its photo, commenting, and "liking" functions. It was at that time that they renamed their app Instagram, combining the words instant and telegram. They also began focusing on improving the photo-sharing experience. Their intention for the app was that it would be minimalist and require as few actions as possible from the user.
After eight weeks of fine-tuning the app, they gave it to friends to beta test and evaluate its performance. After resolving some errors in the software, they brought it to launch. The Instagram app was launched on Oct. At the end of the first week, Instagram had been downloaded , times, and by mid-December, the number of users had reached one million. After the rapid rise in Instagram's user base, more investors became interested in the company.
In addition to institutional investors, the company attracted the attention of other leading companies in the social media technology industry, including Twitter and Facebook. Although this new round of financing gave Systrom and Krieger the opportunity to hire more people, the founders decided to keep the company really small, with barely a dozen employees. Systrom knew Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, from his time as an intern at Odeo.
Dorsey expressed a strong interest in the company and pursued the idea of acquiring Instagram. In April , Instagram was released for Android phones and was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day. Systrom and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had become acquainted through events held at Stanford, and the two had been in communication in the beginning of Instagram's rapid rise in popularity. Instagram made a limited-feature website interface available in November In June , the company introduced an app for the Amazon Fire device, and finally, in , it created an app that made it compatible with Microsoft Windows tablets and computers.
Instagram hit a bump in the road in December after updating its terms of service. This update effectively granting Instagram the right to sell users' photos to third parties without notification or compensation. The move drew immediate criticism from privacy advocates and many of the app's users; some users responded by deleting their accounts. Instagram eventually retracted the controversial terms.
Although Instagram has a variety of features, in general, the app's interface allows individuals who have created a free account to upload media—both photos and videos. Users can then edit the media they upload with filters and organize them with location information and hashtags a word or phrase preceded by a hash sign that is used primarily on social media platforms to identify posts about a specific topic.
Instagram users can browse other users' photos and videos by searching for hashtags and locations. They can also scroll through an aggregation of trending content and interact with other user's photos and videos by clicking on buttons that allow them to "like" a post or add a text comment to a post. By March , Instagram reached 27 million users, and it was released for Android phones in April.
It was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day. If you have anything to add to this history line or you have questions or anything, please comment below to get in touch with me.
By George D. Harrison Share. When was Instagram started? To communicate with each other. To be immortal and be remembered To decorate the cave and make life more beautiful with art To teach future visitors something To express feelings and a lot of other things! Instagram history timeline October 6, Instagram launches December 12, Instagram has 1 million users. March 21, first worldwide InstaMeet August 3, millionth photo upload September 20, introducing version 2. September 26, 10 million users!
November 21, the launch of weekend hashtag project VHP April 3, Instagram launches on android too. April 9, Facebook buys Instagram. June 28, Instagram designs photo pages for the web. July 26, Instagram has 80 million users! December 11, Version 3. December 21, version 3. May 2, tag photos on Instagram. June 20, introducing videos o Instagram. December 12, introducing Instagram direct.
December 1 Instagram reaches million October 22, launch of boomerang December 15, Instagram reaches million February 22, multiple photos per post Now: Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly active users, up from million in September Who created Instagram first? After graduation, he found a job as a marketing associate product manager at Google. I have a question for you all: What is the first thing you do after waking up? I bet you are just like me. The first thing I do on a morning when I open my eyes is grabbing my phone and check the notifications and of course, check Instagram!
Believe it or not, checking my Instagram will boost my brain to start a new day! Who else is there like me? D Harrison. Publisher Name. Was it a good article? New added Awesome. Not good. Waste of time. George D. I'm George from Toronto. More in: Tutorial.
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