(CNN) -- If you read the headlines this week about the the death of Judge Robert Bork, you probably took away that he will be remembered for his conservative judicial philosophy and losing a very contentious Supreme Court confirmation battle. You probably didn't read about the impact he made on modern media, and maybe even on the debate the Internet had about Instagram this week. But that's part of his legacy, too. Let's connect the dots from Bork to Instagram, shall we? 1. The Bork Tapes President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork for the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. During his confirmation hearings, an enterprising reporter found a list of the movies he'd rented at his local video rental store.
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Judge Robert Bork, who died this week, has unlikely connection to digital media
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After a reporter outed Bork's video-rental history, Congress made doing so illegal
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That law shut down a Facebook sharing feature and helped prompt long terms-of-service
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An Instagram TOS update spurred this week's user revolt
Since then, as social networks have exploded in popularity and social media sharing has become de rigueur, just about any of us could flip open @placeholder and see a stream of all the music our friends are listening to right this second.