1. The Elizabethan era (1558-1603): N/A. 2. The Great Depression (1929-WWII): Footage of suicides start cropping into newspapers. There is no real power within them, but they are devastating enough to trigger a curiosity. 3. The 1960s: February 5th, 1960, Paparazzi is officially born from an Italian film by the famed Federico Fellini called "La Dolce Vita" where Walter Santesso plays an invasive photographer named Paparazzo which becomes synonymous with modern celebrity/tabloid photographers, who are collectively referred to as paparazzi. Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. Thus, the birth of Paparazzi! 4. 1999: One word: Columbine.