This is What Instagram Would Look Like if it Came Out in the 80s

You'll get your pictures in a week.

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Instagram and smartphones: it's a marriage made in heaven.

But what if the idea for Instagram popped up before smartphones came around. Like, long before. It wouldn't nearly be as fun, and you'd have to wait a lot longer to enjoy those selfies of yours (and all of those 'likes' you crave wouldn't exist.) Squirrel-Monkey put together this fictional commercial for an Instagram in the 80s, as a part of their “If X would have been invented in Y…” series. 

Would you still use Instagram if this were the only way to filter your pictures? Didn't think so.

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