The earliest usage of the word selfie can be traced as far back as in 2002. It first appeared in Karl Kruszelnicki's 'Dr Karl Self-Serve Science Forum', an Australian internet forum（论坛）on 13 September, 2002.
The concept of uploading group self-taken photographs to the Internet, although with a disposable camera and not a smartphone, dates to a webpage created by Australians in September 2001, including photos taken in the late 1990s.
The term "selfie" was discussed by photographer Jim Krause in 2005, although photos in the selfie genre were earlier than the widespread use of the term. In the early 2000s, before Facebook became the dominant online social network, self-taken photographs were particularly common on MySpace. Between 2006 and 2009, the "MySpace pic" became an indication of bad taste for users of the newer Facebook social network. With improvements in design—especially the front-facing camera of the iPhone 4 (2010), mobile photo apps led to the regrowth of selfies in the early 2010s.
Initially popular with young people, selfies gained wider popularity over time. By the end of 2012, Time magazine considered selfie one of the "top 10 buzzwords" of that year; although selfies had existed long before, it was in 2012 that the term "really hit the big time". According to a 2013 survey, two-thirds of Australian women aged 18–35 take selfies—the most common purpose for which is posting on Facebook. A poll conducted by smartphone and camera maker Samsung found that selfies make up 30% of the photos taken by people aged 18–24. In November 2013, the word "selfie" was announced as being the "word of the year" by the Oxford English Dictionary, which gave the word itself an Australian origin.
Selfies have also been taken beyond Earth. Selfies taken in space include those by astronauts, an image by NASA's Curiosity rover of itself on Mars, and images created by an indirect method, where a self-portrait photograph taken on Earth is displayed on a screen on a satellite and captured by a camera.
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