In 2002, Nathan 'Hopey' Hope, an Australian, posted a question on the science web forum of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He had injured his lip, received stitches for it, so wanted to know whether he could lick his dry lips without undue side-effects. During the conversation, he attached a photo and apologised for the "focus" on a "(electrical) powerpoint over [his] shoulder".
Eleven years later, namely in November 2013, this conversation was pulled out by web-detectives as perhaps the earliest instance of what headline-hogging egotist?
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The word 'selfie', which the Oxford Dictionaries Online named as
its word of the year for 2013.
In that post, Hope had posted a self-taken photo of his lips (he called it a 'selfie').
Like this Slate article tells you, it is highly debatable if Hope's post coined the term, since this kind of linguistic construction is quite common.
This day last year: Q.789