Instagram's History

⛄Instagram is a social networking site operated by Facebook, Inc., for photo and video sharing. Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom developed it and released exclusively on iOS in October 2010. In April 2012, a version for Android devices launched. Moreover, a working website interfaced introduced in November 2012, and applications for Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 were released on April 2016 and in October 2016. Users can upload photos and videos to the site, edit them with different filters, and organize them with tags. The posts of an account may be shared publicly or with pre-authorized followers. Users can browse content by tags and locations from other users and view trend data. Users can 'heart' images and include their contents on a list to follow other users.

       🜲2010-03: Seed funding

On March 5, 2010, with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz partnering on Burbn, Systrom raised a $500,000 seed funding round. In October, Josh Riedel became a community manager. In November, Shayne Sweeney became an engineer, and in August 2011, Jessica Zollman was an evangelist in the neighborhood.

       🜾 2010-07: First photo

The first Instagram post was a photo of South Beach Harbor at Pier 38, posted by Mike Krieger on July 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM.

       🝮 2010-10: iOS release

On October 6, 2010, the Instagram iOS app was officially released through the App Store.

        🜟 2012-04: Facebook acquisition

On April 9, 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock, with a plan to keep the company independently managed. Britain's Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 14, 2012, and on August 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. closed its investigation, allowing the deal to proceed. On September 6, 2012, the deal between Instagram and Facebook was officially closed.

        🜫2016-12: Updated comments

On December 6, 2016, Instagram introduced comment liking and commented disabling.

Users can upvote comments, as known from regular postings.

Similarly to numerous other social media platforms, the uploader can optionally decide to deactivate comments onto a post. However, unlike post likes, the user who posted a comment does not receive notifications about comment likes in their notification inbox.

Users can upvote comments, as known from regular postings.

        🜦2018-11: Accessibility enhancements

On November 28, 2018, Instagram added alternative text features to photo posts, which allowed visually impaired users to listen to descriptions of each photo. And it has alternative text, either automatically generated text or user-inputted text.

        🜠2019-10: Dark mode 

October 2019, Instagram was updated with Dark mode that syncs with iOS 13 and Android 10. 

Myself

💖My name is JINGLIN JIA. I would prefer people to call me Crystal. I am 21 years old and I had a younger brother. (My parents had to pay for his birth.) I am sophomore this year. My major is Education in studies and my minor is communication I wear size 4 shoes. I came from Beijing which is the capital city in China. I also went to High School here in Atlanta Georgia in for three years. The name for the school is Greater Atlanta Christian school. The first year in high school is my first experience with Christianity. I enjoy it without knowing anything about it, but Christian music is really good. I like to play badminton, it is the famous sports in China, and I also like to play table tennis we call it Ping-Pong. I feel happy and lucky to know you guys and study together.