I went through the pile of mechanical and solid-state drives I always see when I’m organizing my storage, and decided to plug them into the sata-USB interface I have to label everything.

Prior to today the date of the first photo in my Photos library (once iPhoto) was from 2001. It’s an old screenshot of my modem settings for Earthlink, which was my ISP back then. I was experimenting with OS X, probably on my PowerMac G4.

At the time, I was taking pics on a couple of early-model Olympus point-and-shoot digital cameras. My second camera was an Olympus D-340R, which took shots at 1280×960. 1.2 megapixels! I believe the first digital I had was the preceding model, which ChatGPT thinks is the D-320L.

All of which is a roundabout way of saying that I found a pile of old pics that I took that precede my earliest entries in my photo library. I still get a kick out of scrolling back that far in my library and seeing those old pics.

A fun one was a pic of my then-new Palm device, which was the last of its kind for my usage (and close to the end of that brand’s run). It was a Palm TX. The pic is from 2008, though.

Another good one: some maybe Apple people hamming it up with iMacs for heads, holding a newly introduced iBook. I had pre-ordered an iBook when they were announced, but ending up cancelling the order in favor of a Lombard PowerBook G3.