It was one decade ago, in the year 2006, when Taylor Swift completed and shipped her first single--"Tim McGraw"--to radio stations. Her label Big Machine tweeted a throwback photo of the exact moment that song was sent to the airwaves.

A fresh-faced Swift slides a compact disc (how quaint!) into an envelope, presumably to stick it in a mailbox and throw a bit of salt over her shoulder. Big Machine seems to imply, "Imagine the chain of events this small, manual gesture set into motion." The pop world as we knew it would never be the same.