“Selfie” – taking selfies – has exploded and become mainstream in the last five years or so, but self-portraits have been around for a long time now. Sarah Burton of the BuzzFeed video channel questioned the origins of the selfie.
According to Burton, the first use of the word “Selfie” online was recorded in September 2002 by a user named “Hopey” , this Australian guy posted (on the website’s forum). ABC) a close-up photo of lips that were accidently drunk after his 21st birthday party.
This is said to be the first Selfie photo shared online that has been recorded.
Not Paris Hilton invented “Selfie”.
Hopey wrote: “Sorry about the focus (in the photo), it’s a selfie”. He later said that he didn’t make up the term, and that (“selfie”) was the “slang” being used by (people). In 2013, because of its popularity, “selfie” was voted Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries by Oxford Dictionaries.
Robert Cornelius’ “selfie” – the first selfie taken in the US.
According to information from the National Library of America, the first selfie taken in the US was the work of Robert Cornelius, taken in 1839. He stood still for about 15 minutes for the exposure process.
Self-portrait by Oscar Rjlander – famous Swedish avant-garde photographer.
The world’s most expensive selfie taken in the 1850s has been sold for 115,000 US dollars (about 2.6 billion). It is a photograph of Oscar Rjlander – the famous Swedish avant-garde photographer. Oscar’s self-portrait, contained in a leather-bound album, was given to a mariner in the 19th century, then passed down through generations of the family.
The first group selfie photo.
The first group selfie is said to have been taken in the 1920s on a rooftop in New York City, USA. Pictured are photographers from the Byron Company, one of New York City’s renowned photography galleries.
However, with a conclusion quite contrary to what is shown in the video (below), Burton believes that no one has actually invented the “selfie”, but it is the creation of mankind.