Who invented the selfie?
SELFIES have become a part of our culture as social media platforms and technology have evolved to accommodate our self portraits with photo feeds and front facing camera. Although selfies may seem like a more recent development, the first selfie was not taken by Kim Kardashian. Robert Cornelius took the first selfie in 1839. He was an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia. Cornelius took the photo by removing the lens cap, running into frame, and hold his pose from three to 15 minutes before covering up the lens again to snap the shot. On the back of the photograph he wrote: "The first light Picture ever taken. 1839." Cornelius may be credited with the first selfie but it wasn't uncommon for photographers to take self portraits back when photography first started. Before photography, royalty and nobility used to commission artist to paint portraits and many artist produced self portraits. In 1914, the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna captured a photo of herself standing in front of a mirror. The first use of the word selfie has been tracked down to an Australian online forum in 2003. A man posted a photo of his face after injuring himself from a fall. He clarified that the image was blurry not because he was drunk but because it was a selfie. In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced selfie as their word of the year. The Oxford Dictionaries research showed that in 2013, the use of the word selfie was up by 17,000%. They define a selfie as: a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.  Then in 2015, the selfie stick was invented to help photographers improve their selfies giving them a greater range to take their photos. The current most liked selfie on Instagram is the photo of Billie Eilish debuting her platinum blonde locks,  The photo was posted on March 17 to Billie's 87.1 millions of followers. Back in 2014, Ellen DeGeneres broke the internet while hosting the Oscars. Teen Mom Chelsea thanks husband Cole and snubs baby daddy Adam on Father's Day ACE'S SWEET FACE! Teen Mom Cheyenne Floyd shares adorable new photos of newborn son Ace MELLOW YELLOW Everything you need to know about Yellowstone's fourth season  The host went into the crowd and posed for a seflie with her celebrity friends and audience members. In the record breaking photo, Bradley Cooper holds the camera as Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o, Peter N'yongo, Angelina Jolie, and Ellen smile at the camera. Ellen shared the photo on Twitter where it was retweeted more than 2,000,000 times before the ceremony was over and caused Twitter to collapse for a short time period.