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“Throwback Thursday” is an Internet theme day fobserved on every Thursday during which people share an old photograph of themselves via social networking sites and image-sharing communities, most notably through photo-sharing mobile app Instagram.

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It has been associated with things that are deemed classic or vintage since as early as 2003, when it was first defined on Urban Dictionary. The earliest known mention of “Throwback Thursday” can be found in the title of a series of revamped retro cartoon characters that were illustrated by animator Saxton Moore and uploaded onto his blog in January 2006.

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In July 2006, the sneaker fan blog Nice Kicks launched their own Throwback Thursday series, highlighting a selection of once-popular vintage sneakers. The first post was dedicated to the Nike Air Trainer (originally released in 1991) and the series continued through June 2012. Also in July 2006, a Throwback Thursday-themed football game was held at Georgia Tech in which players wore 1970s-style uniforms. In 2011, the phrase began to gain more popularity in the blogosphere as it became synonymous with events and objects that are no longer culturally relevant.


By November 2011, ten months after Instagram had introduced hashtags, posting old photos of oneself on Thursdays on the photo sharing site had became an established trend via the hashtags #throwbackthursday and #tbt. As of May 2013, these tags boast 24.2 million and 42.2 million photos respectively. Many people also shared these Instagram photos to other social networks, resulting in more than 90,000 uses of #throwbackthursday on Twitter in the first week of January 2012.

So I officially launch the Throw back Thursday #TBT for NL. Post your old Pix of your school, Vintage pics. Have a nice #TBT

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#First Pix, Abacha
#Second Pix, Abiola, Tinubu

Fela