There have been lots of "selfies" before RowanIn 1839 a man named Robert Cornelius ran into the frame of his own picture. Technically that could be considered the first selfie

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

" Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue,  across the street from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, this picture features  five mustached photographers holding an antediluvian analog camera at  arm’s length. Because this camera would have been too heavy to hold with  one hand, Joseph Byron is propping it up on the left, with his  colleague Ben Falk holding it on the right. In the middle, you have  Pirie MacDonald, Colonel Marceau, and Pop Core."Quoted from: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026832/this-might-be-the-first-selfie-in-photographic-history

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

The two above photos from the 1920s would certainly seem to indicate that Mr. Bean was certainly not the inventor of the selfie. Although I believe he has more credit to it than Paris Hilton does