What is a selfie?   A selfie is a photograph that one has taken of oneself using a camera.   Although the term is fairly new, the concept is fairly old.   At this point in history, the camera has been around for thousands of years.   In order to discover the first selfie, we need to look at the camera and when it was invented.   THE FIRST CAMERA A Chinese philosopher, Mo-Ti, who lived between 470 B.C.E. to 390 B.C.E., is credited with the invention of the first camera ; what we know as the pinhole camera.   A pinhole camera was a dark room or dark box with a hole on one side which would allow light into the dark box.   The light would project an image on the opposite side of the box where the image was captured.   The smaller the hole, the sharper the image.   If light was too little, the image would be too dark and little detail.   If the light was too much, the image was too light and blurry.   Fifty years after its crea...