Credits: Social Media
Video of Instagram app 13 years ago has got everyone feel nostalgic�
A video that shows the Instagram app in 2011 has gone viral on TikTok and it’s got everyone feeling nostalgic.
It was shared by a user called Nostalgia Birds, who shows off ancient apps which he still has downloaded on old iPhones and iPods.
Instagram app in 2011
In the viral video which has had more than 8.7 million views, he opens up the Instagram app on a white iPod Touch 4, which was released in September 2010. The social media app has its original logo, a brown vintage camera with a rainbow square in the corner.
After clicking on the icon, the sign in screen appears, which is covered in square polaroid pictures. He signs into his account and the app doesn’t load properly because it’s so old, but you can still see the original layout.
Instagram’s theme is blue, with the bottom bar appearing in black. The only feature that looks the same as today’s app is the ‘Home’ button, which takes you to your feed and appears in the bottom left-hand corner.
When the TikTok user clicks on the profile tab, you can see how people’s accounts used to appear, with the profile picture in a square on the left. The ‘Posts’, ‘Following’ and ‘Followers’ tabs are next to it, which are still there in 2024.
Everyone is feeling nostalgic
The video has got people feeling all sentimental, and many are saying they miss that era of Instagram, when life was “simple”.
One person wrote: “2011-13 Instagram was elite.”
“I miss the old Instagram,” said another.
A third person added: “Before ‘influencers’.”
“When we would just post random pictures,” someone else said.
Another wrote: “You just had to be there.”
Instagram launched in 2010
Instagram was originally launched for iOS in�October 2010�by its founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
It rapidly grew in popularity, gaining one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and one billion by June 2018.
In April 2012, Facebook Inc. bought Instagram for $1 billion and an Android version was released in the same month.
Facebook has already launched six years prior, in February 2004, founded by�Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students.
However, the first social media site was actually Six Degrees, a 1997 platform that let users create profiles make friends with other users.
After that, LinkedIn and MySpace launched in 2003, but it was Facebook that really changed the social media world forever.
