--- title: The First Vine Ever Shared description: The real story behind the first vine ever shared and the first vine ever made. canonical: https://time.com/4187825/first-vine-ever/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 23, 2016 12:00 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 23, 2016 12:00 PM UTC In light of Vine’s third birthday, which the social network celebrates on Jan. 24, take a look back at the clip that’s known as the first Vine ever shared. On the next day, [Twitter introduced Vine](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/28/vines-porn-problem-twitter-blames-human-error/) as a new way to share video in six seconds or less. On Jan. 23, 2013, Dick Costolo, the then-CEO of Twitter, [tweeted ](https://twitter.com/dickc/status/294124523714916353?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)a six-second [video](http://vine.co/v/bOIqn6rLeID) of someone preparing steak tartare at Les Halles, a French restaurant in New York City. Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann also tweeted at the time: “After a week of salad, I’m craving steak tartare at 11 in the morning.” Hofmann can’t remember why he had only been eating salad for a week (“may have been a New Year’s resolution,” he says now). When asked why he chose steak tartare prep to demonstrate the app, he said, “Personally, I was on a steak tartare kick at that time.” The “first-ever” clip uploaded to Vine was also filmed in New York City and showed three shots of the southbound M train inside the 23rd street subway station. But Hofmann, now the CEO of Byte, an app for making collages with photos and videos, admits, “Sadly, it’s lost.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4187825/first-vine-ever/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4187825/first-vine-ever/"},"headline":"This Is the First Vine Ever Shared","datePublished":"2016-01-23T12:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:00.545Z","description":"Today in Internet history","url":"https://time.com/4187825/first-vine-ever/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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