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Joseph Nicephore Niepce used a wooden box camera (a camera obscura) to capture the first permanent photograph. The exposure took 8 hours. source: photography.nationalgeographic. com
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Amatuer chemist, Robert Cornelius, took a daguerrotype of himself by taking off the lens cap, running into frame and sitting still for a few minutes. In the back of the picture he wrote "The first light Picture ever taken. 1839" source: publicdomainreview.org
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Russian Duchess, Anastasia Nikoleavna captured a selfie in 1913, five years before her death. She was executed with her family. source: theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/1913-duchess-anastasi-takes-selfie
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On "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", Paul Macartney claims that this photograph proves that he invented the selfie. source: www.jigidi.com picture
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The first cell phone with an intergrated camera was realeased initially in Japan by Sharp Corp in November of 2000. The camera had a photographic resolution of 0.11 mega pixels and a 256 - color display. source: www.gadgetizer.com
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According to The Telegraph, a UK based news organization, the first recorded usage of the word "selfie" was by an Australian man that took a selfie of his injured lip after a drunken night. "I had a hole about 1 cm long through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie." source: www.theguardian.com
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Myspace, a social media site that prompted the user to upload a "profile picture", caused the act of uploading a selfie on social media accounts to go viral in the ealry 2000s. source: www.thehuffingtonpost.com Myspace Timeline article
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The Sony Ericcson Z1010, claims to be the first and one of the few cell phones with front faced cameras to be released in 2003 causing a revolution of the mobile selfie. source: www.nerdeky,com
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Mark Zuckerberg and his college room mates launched a social networking site, Facebook, which also prompted the user to upload selfies on their profiles. Facebook ultimately caused the downfall of Myspace. source: www. wiki.org History of Facebook
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Steve Jobs announces launch of iPhone at Macworld Convention and is released in June of 2007. The phone made it extremely easy for iPhone users to take selfies and automatically upload them to their social media accounts within minutes. source: www.nytimes.com
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Instagram lauches as one of the most popular mobile photo sharing apps in the world. It gained a popularity of over 100 million users within a timespan of two years. Source: wersm.com/the-complete-history-of-Instagram/
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The rapid rise of the selfie through out the 2000s and specifically 2013, inititaites the Oxford Dictionary to take the "almost unanimous" decision to make the word of the year 2013, "selfie". Source: blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/11/word-of-the-year-2013-winner/
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Ellen DeGeneres initiates the "Most Famous Selfie Ever Taken" during the Oscars in 2014 including celebrities such as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and many more. The photo broke a record of the most retweeted tweet which initially was held by President Obama. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/02/Ellen-degeneres-selfie-oscars
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Time magazine listed the "selfie stick" as one of the best inventions of 2014 and quoted a mobile tech analyst for Gartner, Van Baker, saying that the selfie stick adds more geniuine value to the selfie. Souce: time.com/3594971/the-best-inventions-of-2014/
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Source: blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/oxford-dictionaries-new-words-december-2014/
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SnapChat provided the ability to add interactive effects to their user's selfie, causing selfies to continue to tip in in the 2010's. Source: www.dailydot.com/technology/new-snapchat-selfie-lenses/
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Kim Kardashian is a celebrity known for taking selfies constantly. In 2015 she released, a book with nothing but her selfies. The book was called "Selfish". Source: www.usmagazine.com/celebnews
