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Vine changed the internet forever. How much does the internet miss it?

Short videos are everywhere now. The founder of Byte hopes people are nostalgic for the original six-second video app.

Short videos are everywhere now. The founder of Byte hopes people are nostalgic for the original six-second video app.

Vine, the short-form video app introduced in 2012, died as it lived: confusing people who didn’t use it, even as evidence of its influence surrounded them.
Like our phones, the videos have gotten taller; like our phones’ cameras, they’re sharper and more realistic, too. “If you were to bring back Vine as it was when it shut down, today, it would feel pretty dated,”
To most of us, Byte is an app that we’ll either enjoy or ignore. To a few — the creators it needs — it’s a strange new kind of bet on a job that may be great or may not exist, in an office that’s still being built.