Four years ago, taking pictures of brunch was weird. But on Oct. 6, 2010, everything changed.
Monday marks Instagram’s 4th birthday, and to celebrate, it’s time to take a trip down memory lane. Instagram gave TIME a time capsule that goes back to the early days of the photo-sharing app. The 13 most popular hashtags of 2010 show that while some things change (um, #iphone4?), some never will (#cat forever):
#cat
The Internet loves felines, now and forever
#iphone4
#iphone6
#snowpocalypse
Now we have polar vortexes to worry about
#sfgiants
A Silicon Valley favorite
#ivoted
About that time again
#movember
It will never end
#tgif
We’re now kind of more into #TBT
#angrybirds
Remember a time before Candy Crush?
#blackswan
This one provided a lot of Halloween costume inspiration
#madmen
The show will soon enter its final season
#lunareclipse
People love capturing natural occurrences
#thanksgiving
People continue to up their Thanksgiving Instagram game
#nofilter
With all of Instagram’s filter offerings, it’s now kind of hard to resist
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