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Kevin Systrom is born. Systrom went to Middlesex School and got interested in computer programming while playing one of the very first first-person-shooters, Doom 2. Doom was the next level of games back then.

Dec 30, 1983

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Citation Link: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/kevin-systrom.html

Mike Krieger is born in Brazil. Krieger moved to California to go to Stanford University in 2004, and that's where he and Systrom met up. In Stanford he studied Symbolic Systems and Human-Computer Interaction.

Mar 4, 1986

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Citation Link: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/mike-krieger.html

Kevin Systrom introduces Burbn to Steve Anderson at a party. Anderson was impressed. Anderson commited $250,000 to Burbn.

Jan 10, 2010

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Link to Citation: http://fortune.com/2014/10/10/how-kevin-systrom-got-started/

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger publish Instagram. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger met at Stanford University and Krieger was an early Burbn enthusiast. Systrom had also worked for Google's Gmail.

Oct 6, 2010

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Citation Link: http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-founders-instagram.html

In 24 hours, close to 25,000 people had signed up for an Instagram account. People loved the fact that Instagram was simply for one thing... Photos. Burbn was therefore less popular because it was too complex.

Oct 7, 2010

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Link to Citation: http://fortune.com/2014/10/10/how-kevin-systrom-got-started/

Instagram hits its 1 milllionth user. It is now on the list of one of the fastest applications to reach 1 million users. The Oink app and the Relaunched Path app being above it, the latter of the 2 being the fastest grower.

Dec 16, 2010

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Link to Citation: http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/top-startups-million-users.html

Facebook buys Instagram for $1 Billion. This is also when Kevin Systrom admits that he turned down a job for Facebook years before. Its amazing that Instagram is run by only 13 employees.

Apr 9, 2012

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Citation Link: http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-founders-instagram.html

Instagram allows videos to be made. The videos are only allowed to be 15 seconds long, and you can tap a delete button to delete the most recent segment. The way its different than Vine is that the video plays automatically but does not loop.

Jun 20, 2013

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Citation link: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/20/4448182/facebook

Instagram is valued at $35 million. Since then Kevin Systrom has been on Forbes magazine. Instagram also works out of Twitter's old office.

Dec 19, 2014

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Citation Link: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/citigroup-says-instagram-is-worth-35-billion/?_r=0

Instagram releases its most recent update. It implements a new explore page along with a more powerful search to find things and people. Explore also updates with every post that happens.

Jun 23, 2015

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Link to Citation: http://blog.instagram.com/post/122260662827/150623-search-and-explore