Initially, the application they created was called Burbn and was much more complicated than the one we know today.
Burbn started out as a geolocation and check-in app very similar to FourSquare, until they realized that what really interested them were the photos that were uploaded of the places. From this point on, they changed their focus and decided to dedicate themselves entirely to the publication and retouching of images .
Instagram, the coolest app on the market
So they created a new version of the app and called benin number data it Instagram . This name comes from combining the concepts of “snapshot” and “telegram” , words that reminded the creators of their childhood with Polaroid photos.
Instagram was launched in early October 2010 exclusively for Apple devices . In its first week of life, the social network had already been downloaded by 200,000 users and three months after its launch, it had already reached one million .
One of the distinctive features of Instagram in its early days was that the images had a square shape in honor of the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras.
As a curiosity, the first photo uploaded to Instagram was of a dog, the pet of one of the founders.