Although the term was first coined in an Australian online forum in 2002, the practice of taking self-portraits is as old as photography itself.
: The first known photographic selfie was a daguerreotype taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839. Later, in 1914, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna became one of the first teenagers to take her own picture using a mirror to send to a friend. 2. Selfies
: The debut of the front-facing camera on smartphones (notably the iPhone 4 in 2010) and the rise of image-centric platforms like Instagram and Snapchat facilitated the "explosion" of selfie popularity between 2013 and 2014. Although the term was first coined in an

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