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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 ## Transcript >> It's really-- I'm excited because it's my first time to any fashion show. So it's really a good opportunity for me to see, you know, the fashion in person, you know, live. Everything is beautiful. >> Everyone is so busy. I'm not sure like where I should go and I felt a little bit like a cattle. >> It is the first true meet up and we're sort of experiencing different elements of a fashion show. Is there a downside to having just everyday Instagrammers to come? Yeah, they're not professional photographers, whereas if you invite this group of everyday photographers, their perspective, their aesthetic might be different, might be fresh and new. >> So I'm a travel blogger, so this is really out of my comfort zone. I'm used to being in far- flung beaches, where there's 10 people or I'm on a boat. It's almost like an adventurer's view on fashion. >> I've hosted the main stage and also one backstage of the show. I think I'm gonna post at least 20. Yeah. 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