Selfies are a huge trend right now, with Kim Kardashian as the self proclaimed selfie queen, but they have been around for a lot longer than you know, today's throwback is on the history of selfies.
The term got notorious in 2012 (though it had definitely been used before then), and was added to OxfordDictionaries.com in August of 2013.
The first selfie was by Robert Cornelius, who snapped the first self-portrait (that we know of) in 1839 with a daguerreotype, meaning that selfies predate the American Civil War.
While the smartphone generation has undoubtedly boosted the selfie’s popularity, it is older than this generation, find out a few stages of the evolution of the modern selfie.
Whether this brief history has inspired you to grab your smartphone and star in your very own photo shoot, or it has made you wish more strongly than ever that the selfie would fade into obscurity, it’s a fact that this “fad” has been around for quite some time, and selfies probably won’t be disappearing from our lexicon or our social lives anytime soon.
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