In the late mid to late 90’s they had cameras and video cameras on what we would now refer to as ‘Dumbphones’. I was born between the Summer of Love and the original Woodstock. Those were my 20’s and 30’s. They had cameras. Not great cameras. Not all of them but enough of them. BTW I worked in IT and studied WAP and online multimedia formats as part of my training.
And something else you are forgetting is the trend was on blog like sites before blogging was a thing. People didn’t expect high quality images because they took forever to download. Often people also used crappy pocket cams and videos from cheap video cameras. But most people think phones when you say selfies these days, but they often used digital snapshot cameras and then imported them to the PC and shunk them down to Internet size. However AIUI the movement were based on camera focused dumbphones.
You don’t want to believe it fine. No skin off my nose.
Yeah I absolutely know phone cameras actually existed, but also that no one at all posted phone camera pics online because the resolution was so poor. I was in my late teens and 20s during this time. Everyone had digital cameras and transferred pics to their computers to upload.
Sure they existed around then, but go back and look at the photo quality. Phone cameras were a novelty in 2003, and anyone wanting to actually take a picture was still using a dedicated camera. No one was taking pictures like the ones we’re talking about here on their Nokia
Phone cameras weren’t a thing in the 90s or 00s
In the late mid to late 90’s they had cameras and video cameras on what we would now refer to as ‘Dumbphones’. I was born between the Summer of Love and the original Woodstock. Those were my 20’s and 30’s. They had cameras. Not great cameras. Not all of them but enough of them. BTW I worked in IT and studied WAP and online multimedia formats as part of my training.
And something else you are forgetting is the trend was on blog like sites before blogging was a thing. People didn’t expect high quality images because they took forever to download. Often people also used crappy pocket cams and videos from cheap video cameras. But most people think phones when you say selfies these days, but they often used digital snapshot cameras and then imported them to the PC and shunk them down to Internet size. However AIUI the movement were based on camera focused dumbphones.
You don’t want to believe it fine. No skin off my nose.
Yeah I absolutely know phone cameras actually existed, but also that no one at all posted phone camera pics online because the resolution was so poor. I was in my late teens and 20s during this time. Everyone had digital cameras and transferred pics to their computers to upload.
I think 2003 is when they started taking off.
Sure they existed around then, but go back and look at the photo quality. Phone cameras were a novelty in 2003, and anyone wanting to actually take a picture was still using a dedicated camera. No one was taking pictures like the ones we’re talking about here on their Nokia