On 11, 1997, inventor Phillipe Kahn captured a photo of his newborn daughter with his digital camera in a maternity ward at Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California.
Kahn, who had a server running at his home, used a Casio QV digital camera (one of the first successful digital cameras), a Motorola StarTAC mobile phone and a laptop to capture the image.
Shortly after the new baby arrived, Khan was ready to take a photo of her. Holding his daughter in one hand, and the camera in the other, he snapped the first photo of his baby. He instantly shares the first ever camera phone photograph with more than 2000 friends and family members.
Since “camera phones” didn’t exist at that time, Kahn actually hacked together a primitive one by combining his digital camera and a cell phone.
This was the spark that started it all - soon afterwards, Nokia, Sharp and Sony Ericsson would all launch camera phones.’’ In May of 1999, Japan was the launchpad for the Kyocera VP-210. It was the first such phone with a built-in camera that was sold commercially to the general public.
On Sep 7 2000, Phillipe Kahn demonstrates the camera phone and instant photo sharing infrastructure at the DEMOmobile conference. It is the first public demonstration of photo sharing services.
In 2016, Time Magazine named Kahn’s seminal camera phone photo one of the 100 most influential photos of all time.
The first camera phone photo is shared
