While rummaging through a drawer the other day, I came across a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life from December 1998. ; It's interesting to see how much things have changed in the last 12 years. Sony's Mavica MVC-FD81 featured 1024x768 resolution and could take MPEG movies. ; No memory card required - images were stored on a floppy disk. Kodak's DC210 cost $499 and used an 8Mb CF card to store 25 to 120 photos. Canon was advertising their Mini-DV camcorders. Lexar's Digital Film memory cards had a capacity of "10 zillion exposures." ; They claimed to have "the highest capacity card on the market - a honkin' 64 MB." Film was still very much in use as indicated by a two-page article on photography on the internet, covering both how-to sites and film labs. Why do I still have this magazine from the time when the Pentium II was Intel's latest processor? ; The cover story was Star Trek on the Net and featured a photo of Marina Sirtis. ; Articles included interviews with the cast and producer ST:TNG, a directory of the best Trek fan sites and a comparison of the various captains. ; Fun stuff.
I sold a car to Marina Sirtis...Jeri Ryan too. ; Fun times! I owned a Sony Mavica FD91, the big zoom version (15x optical), in 1997. ; It was a hair under $1,000 to get that awesome 1MP resolution. ; I could get 8-10 photos on a floppy - usually traveled with a box of 20-30 floppies. Still had my film cameras too - shot a lot with my Canon EOS at the time.
