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Robert Cornelius used a box fitted with a lens to create the image. He uncovered the lens, ran into frame, posed for several minutes, and then ran back and covered up the lens. The image was taken outside his family’s lamp store. It’s considered the first selfie. -
Gaspard-Felix Tournachon photographed himself a dozen times as he slowly rotated in a swivel chair. He then stitched all the photos together to make a rotating selfie. His ingenuity back in 1865 foreshadowed a lot of things to come in the future of photography. -
In 1884, American entrepreneur George Eastman patented a film roll he had been working on for years. By 1888 he perfected it and his first camera went on sale that year. It was called the Kodak and it came pre-loaded with enough film for 100 pictures. The only problem was the entire camera had to be sent to the factory for processing and reloading when the roll was finished. -
The Kodak Brownie took the world by storm and everybody was using it. Anastasia Nikolaevna posed in front of a mirror and snapped a selfie using her Kodak Brownie camera when she was 13 years old. She sent the photo to a friend and on the back of the picture she wrote, “I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very hard as my hands were trembling.” -
One of the most famous selfies in history was taken by American engineer and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin is most known for walking on the moon with Neil Armstrong as part of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, but in 1966 he made history by snapping the first selfie in outer space. -
Hiroshi Ueda and Yujiro Mima created the extender stick. Ueda said that the extender stick was made because he had a hard time comfortably taking pictures with his wife while on a trip to Europe. When their patent ran out in 2003, Wayne Fromm, a Canadian inventor and entrepreneur picked up the “stick” and was still running with the idea in 2005. -
In September of 2002 an Australian man named “Hopey” posted a photo of his busted lip on an image-hosting website. He then went to a message board and wrote something. He added a link to the photo and it was the first time anybody dubbed their image a “selfie” online. -
The first front-facing phone cameras were introduced way back in 2003. The cameras were designed with conference calls in mind, but the selfie might be its most widespread function today. -
Myspace, the largest social media platform at the time, includes profile picture option. The “Myspace Pic” era encourages users to hold camera at arm’s length to take their own profile photo. -
In October of 2010 photo-sharing app Instagram launched and quickly took off — registering 10 million users in a year. On January 16, 2011 the first image with the hashtag selfie (#selfie) was uploaded to the app by user Jennifer Lee. https://www.instagram.com/p/BDas2/?img_index=1
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