The history of the selfie stickThe selfie stick seems to be everywhere nowadays, but where did it come from?
While the selfie stick seems like a modern device that's only been around for a few years, the concept has actually existed for quite a while in a variety of different forms.
An almost 100 year-old photograph provided by freelance journalist Alan Cleaver from 1925 taken in central England shows a couple – the man with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, the woman looking on in confusion – snapping their picture with a camera suspended from a stick-like device. Then, closer to today, a book called 101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions highlighted the selfie stick over 20 years ago back in 1995.
In the bizarre 1969 Czechoslovak sci-fi movie Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové (aka I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen), one of the characters even takes a selfie with a stick that extends just like a selfie stick before a polaroid prints out of the base of the device.
But it wasn't until 1984 that the selfie stick...
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The history of the selfie stick
