Interesting.What. The. WHAT ???????There was no application for digital photographs in 1990, as hardly anyone had personal computers back then.
Personal computers came up at the end of the 1970s/early 1980s.
In the 1990s, everyone had one. Heck, even I had a 386, and I was a poor student back then.
At the end of the 1990s, Netscape and the internet aka World Wide Web gained speed.
In the late 90s, yes, but not in 1991! Very few people had them. Not until the internet was widely available did digital photography have any utility.
Your computer today did not exist back then.
But we certainly had personal computers back then
The commodore PET, Radio Shack TR-80, Apple ][+, //e, original IBM PC (and the onslaught of many clones), the original MacIntoshes and many others were widely available back in the 1980s, much less the 1990s. IBM tried to steal back the PC design with their MCA bus in the late 80's only to loose more market share.
My first digital camera was a Kodak DC50 which connected to the computer I had back then which was a PC clone 8086 w/turbo mode.
But as with Digital cameras, the full sized PC was more expensive when initially released. Matter of fact a IBM PC with dual SS floppy disc drives and monochrome monitor cost mutiples of a lower cost laptop nowadays when it first came out. It was the same with the initial digital cameras.
I guess it all depends upon your definition of "very few people had them"
Just like you can say very few people had smart phones 10 years ago because the product was in it's infancy with Palm dominating the market.
Back in the mid 80's at the University we had the Merit Internet (not WorldWideWeb) as we could communicate to schools (and gov't agencies) around the world.
of course, it wasn't until Al Gore came around and invented everything that we got to where we are today LOL
Precisely: There was almost no market for digital cameras back then (early 90s).