Instagram's First Photo

Ever wonder what image started Instagram? Well, it’s kinda typical actually. It was a photo of a dog and a foot, seemingly shot from the hip with a smartphone. Instagram founder Kevin Systrom took the image that started the successful platform, which was snapped up by Facebook for $1 billion.

AppAdvice has more: “Although the free Instagram app wouldn’t be released until October 2010, the first photos on the service were uploaded three months earlier to an app named Codename. According

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