[sauerbraten]

I have my doubts about the timestamps on these first posts. How did Kevin get from Pier 38, where Mike supposedly photographed him at exactly noon, to Todos Santos at ~2:30pm, when it's 28 hours away?

[bazzargh]

A couple of things:

- the 'noon' photo is taken at night

- the '10:26am' photo shows shadows on the windowsill from the south and west - Pier 38 runs almost west->east from shore. (something on the shore reflecting light? I'm assuming the stronger shadow is from the sun). Popping the date and time into a shadow calculator shows the sun would have been positioned above the south east corner of Pier 40 from that window - which couldn't have cast either shadow. I used http://shadowcalculator.eu/#/lat/37.78196555892351/lng/-122.... to check. The 10:26 photo does look more like it was taken around noon.

So, as others have said, these are upload times not when the photos were taken.

[yoz-y]

If it uses the timestamp of the upload, rather than timestamp of the picture then it is possible. However I don't remember if Instagram could use pictures from the camera roll in first version.

[fudged71]

I don't think this was possible at the time. I thought instagram was restricted to only posting right then and there, and camera roll access came at a wayyy later date.

[raldi]

The timestamps are from when the photos were posted, not taken.

[brentm]

I heard they were also working on a teleportation prototype at the time Instagram took off.

[airstrike]

Sadly, the teleportation prototype actually duplicated the user, forcing the originals to have to kill themselves every time the machine was used to avoid any confusion.

[friedegg]

Tesla tried to warn them that exact science is not always an exact science.

[notJim]

Wait a second, is the "copy" the same person, or a whole new person being created?

[airstrike]

I'm not sure there's an objective answer to that, so I suggest consulting with your local philosopher.

[HomeDeLaPot]

Any programmer will tell you the copy is just a second instance of the first person's type. It exists separately in spacetime (analogous to memory space). :)

[brentm]

Dark! And isn't there a Netflix show about that concept?

[dlbucci]

Not sure about a Netflix show, but it's the basic plot of The Prestige.

[airstrike]

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT

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It's from a fantastic movie that would be completely ruined if I told you the name; so refer to the comment below if you don't mind the huge spoiler...

[mjsalsman93]

Living with Yourself.