Oxford English Dictionary, 2013 Announced “Selfie” was chosen as the word of the year. It was the first recorded hashtag on Instagram. The incident, which occurred on January 27, 2011, actually occurred in 2002 when an Australian man posted a photo of himself on an internet forum, It was called a “selfie”. meanwhile A device for taking self-photos Although selfies have been around for many years, long before the rise of smartphones that sparked this phenomenon, the history of the selfie dates back to the origins of photography itself.
As Public Domain Review NotesThe first recorded selfie is perhaps reminiscent of the first photographic portrait. It was taken in 1839 by a young Philadelphia chemist. Robert Cornelius He walked out of his family’s store and took a photo of himself.
He took the lens cap off and ran to take the picture. [into the] He sat in the frame for a minute, then hid the lens again. On the back was the inscription, “First photograph of light taken. 1839.”
Cornelius’s striking self-portrait clearly demonstrates his talent for photography. Godey’s Ladies’ Book of 1840 read:
… As a daguerreotyper, his specimens are the finest that have ever been seen in the country, and we say this with a full knowledge of the specimens here presented by Mr. Gouraud. Mr. Gouraud claims to be the work of a personal daguerreotyper, and this is undoubtedly true. We have seen many specimens made by the young Cornelius, but they are incomparable and cannot be appreciated until they have been seen.
As a final consolation to linguistics devotees outraged by the addition of Australian slang to the dictionary, there’s no need to worry: the Oxford Dictionary Online is quite different from the Oxford English Dictionary.
via Public Domain Review
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