Did Paris Hilton invent the selfie? <br /><br />Hilton claims she did in a viral tweet of a selfie with Britney Spears taken in 2006. But Twitter disagrees. <br /><br />Users have been flooding Hilton's replies with historic selfies, including those of Bill Nye in 1999, Buzz Aldrin in 1966, and Paul McCartney in 1959.<br /><br />The man who invented the selfie was Robert Cornelius, who snapped his photo in 1839. The word "selfie" was first tweeted in 2007, and Hilton was not responsible. <br /><br />Inventions aside, we can credit Hilton with making selfies a global phenomenon.
