And no, it’s not for taking fire pics of yourself. Unfortunately.
We all love a good selfie.
They allow our angles to be correct, they give us something to post on Instagram, they’re handy for throwing up on Snapchat for the benefit of that literal one lad we fancy.
They’re great.
However, as it turns out, the front-facing camera wasn’t actually originally meant for taking pics of ourselves.
It was meant for business calls.
Yep, good ol’ front cameras were designed so we could engage in business calls on the go.
And over time, us self-obsessed, nasty millennials gradually turned them into selfie cameras.
Good for us.
Quartz reports that Sony was the first company to introduce the front-facing camera.
This was way back in 2003.
The Sony Ericsson flip phone sported a 0.3 pixel (wow) camera that the phone’s holder could turn towards themselves and engage in a business call.
Understandably, you could not take actual photos with this feature.
That came later.
Now, over 93 million selfies are taken around the world every single day.
That’s a lot of missed business calls, lads.
