Film: What it would Instagram be like if it was made in the 80s?

Date
21 February 2014

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I see you all, standing on the train platform with your fat little thumbs scrolling into oblivion as you wade through all your “friends” showing off their artisan lifestyles on their mobile phones. Hey, who am I kidding? I flipping love Instagram, and my artisan lifestyle. Retro video parody-making team SquirrelMonkeyCom have meshed the social media de rigueur with the 1980s. Sure back then they had speedboats, rolled-up sleeves and enough cocaine to dry up the Pacific but did they have the World Wide Web? They did not. What this video does is spell out just how lucky we are to have an easy way to show off our boring photos to our friends with just one click, because back then it would have taken about four days. Check out the rest of the series over on their YouTube channel.

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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SquirrelMonkeyCom: If Instagram would have been invented in the ’80s

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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