ral-clan wrote:
Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind. In some cases, it was just novel to see a photo quality digital image in the late 1980s & early 1990s. Like how the demo pics for the DigiView, etc. got bandied around on the early Amiga BBSs and on Public Domain disc collections.
But still, the pic of the VW, etc. above was taken in 1997 and really didn't have anything to do with the Amiga.
You forget what internet was like in 1997 for those lucky few who actually had access to it. Digital cameras were still virtually non-existent. I remember how much I loved browsing those photos sections every time I bought an Aminet CD (when I had no internet access either).
I think it was just the spirit of the community, sharing daily lives on the "early" net when there were no web-forums, no digital cameras, no photo-sharing pages etc... the perception of the internet was very different back then. It's just an indicator of an earlier era, that's all.
Makes you realize how much the Amiga platform and its users have aged. :-(
