“Eat Your Heart Out Ellen!”: Colin Powell And A Brief History Of The V

Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, there’s a new selfie sheriff in town.

This morning, 76-year-old retired secretary of state General Colin Powell posted a vintage selfie on his Facebook page.

Throwback Thursday – I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen!

Powell, of course, was not the first person to capture their own image pre-iPhone. And so to celebrate Powell’s image, we’ve compiled some of the best vintage selfies in history.

1839: Chemist and metallurgist Robert Cornelius captures the world’s first selfie

Photo by Robert Cornelius via Library of Congress

1898: Belgian painter, Henri Evenepoel

1910: A man experiments with his camera

1920: Photographers on the roof of the Marceau Studio, New York

Photo by The Byron Company via The Museum of the City of New York

The result:

How going to the Moon really did change the world—back on Earth

This “virtual power plant” made of solar and batteries means Oakland can stop burning jet fuel

Inside the effort to map the world’s dying coral reefs from space

Sports media is going direct to consumer—and Copa90 wants to be the Glossier of soccer

The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyena problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results.

This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to create

This fascinating graph shows how life in America has changed since 2003

The quest to bring urinal culture to women

Sorry Wall-E, this is now the world’s cutest robot

Why team-building exercises are useless (and what you should do instead)

What companies should do with the office mansplainer

This Lyft executive shares their secret recipe for keeping customers and drivers happy