peter4fiter posted a photo:

2004 - The first digital camera from Sony. A whole 1.2 megapixels, two AA batteries, and the feeling that an era had just ended.

No more developing photos.
No more counting frames.
No more crying over a wasted frame.

It sounds ridiculous today, because a phone in your pocket does more than many "cameras of the future" back then.
But back then, it was freedom. You could try, break, improve, learn to see without paying for your own mistakes every time.

I look at this photo and I see more than just a winter scene from years ago.
I see the beginning of the best days of my hobby.