For some today, it may be hard to imagine life before high quality cameras on devices like iPhones, or portable digital cameras in general. Back in the early ’90s it was basically all about the traditional film roll cameras, or even regular disposable cameras. Apple, back in the days when they tried to make about anything in the tech world, took a foray into the digital camera world with the QuickTake.

Here are some specs for the QuickTake series of cameras:

Here’s some additional history from Apple Museum:

In 1992 Apple started to develop its first digital camera – the “Venus” project. At that time over U.S. 12 billion were spent annually in the US for photography. Therefore, there was a huge market for digital photography. The QuickTake 100 digital camera was an easy-to-use digital camera with a 1 MB Flash-card. By releasing a connection-kit for Windows for QuickTake 150 Apple tried to sell its digital camera to Windows users as well. Unfortunately the QuickTake digital camera did not sell very well.

Today, Apple makes one of the most popular cameras that people use, with the iPhone! They’ve come a long way from the QuickTake.

The original gum drop iMac, an iconic machine in Apple’s history. This iMac really signified the rebirth of Apple under Steve Jobs in the late ’90s. This computer could be considered the genesis of where the modern day Apple originated. People may forget, the “i” in iMac actually stood for internet (see the video at the bottom for more), and from there the whole iDevice revolution began.

For more on the history of the original iMac, here’s what Apple-History.com said about it:

“Announced in May 1998 and shipped in August, the iMac was Apple’s computer for the new millennium. Aimed at the low-end consumer market and designed with the internet in mind, the iMac was positioned by Apple as the most original new computer since the original Mac in 1984, and came in a stylish new case design, with translucent “Bondi Blue” plastics. The iMac included a 4 Mbps IrDA port, and an internal 56Kpbs modem (a 33.6 kbps modem was originally announced in May, but was upped to 56 kbps at MacWorld.), used two 12 Mbps Universal Serial Ports (USB) as its only means of external expansion, and included a newly-designed USB keyboard and mouse. While it had no other serial or SCSI ports, many manufacturers promised to make a variety of USB peripherals available by the time it shipped in August, and by and large they delivered on that promise. A “Rev B.” model was released several months later, with 6 MB of VRAM, and several hardware bug-fixes. The iMac sold for $1,299 U.S. This Rev. B iMac was replaced by the Rev. C in January 1999.”

A brief spec sheet:

Here are some of the iconic ad campaigns Apple ran for the iMac.

Apple eventually introduced more colors to the iMac line.

And here is Steve Jobs introducing the iMac, only the way Steve could.