- Photo snagged from Colin Powell’s Facebook.
- Colin Powell took bedroom selfies before Myspace was invented.
You might have noticed it was “Throwback Thursday” when you noticed all your friends and family posting nostalgic photos of themselves. Retired four-star Army General Colin Powell decided to share a selfie he took 60 years ago on his Facebook page. The caption reads “Throwback Thursday – I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen! The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” This might be technically the first selfie in American history. I could be wrong.
This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2014.
You are. Painters were doing selfies hundreds of years before the camera was even invented.
Ha! Good one, not a rancho hobo.
Colin Powell should have been our first black president. (He would have been the first black at the Republican Convention or the first general at tyhe Democratic Convention!)
There were surveys done when he was considering a run at the office that said he drew large support from white males in the South. I believe that he would have made a great president.
Much better than that socialist community organizer from Chicago.
No big deal General. My girlfriend and I shot a nude selfie in the 70’s with a Brownie Hawkeye camera.