This collection of photos was part of the original Inuvik Home Page, sponsored by Inuvik TV, in 1996 and 1997. Inuvik, a community of 3000 in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Canadian arctic, was one of the first communities blessed with broadband internet over cable. The Inuvik Home Page was developed as a community portal, providing maps, events calendars, business directories, and information on sports, arts, and travel.

The opening page featured a new graphic a couple of times a week. Most of the graphics were digital photographs, taken outdoors and posted on the website within an hour or two, and these photos elicited many comments from people across Canada and around the world.

I took the photographs with a camera that would be terribly crude by today's standards. The top resolution was 640 x 480, and the camera held a grand total of eight photos at such a high pixel count. There was no display, no way to erase or download photos selectively, and it took several minutes to download the pictures through the slow input ports of that era's computers. Yet the Apple QuickTake 100, which I purchased second-hand at half price – $400 – was a great liberation for me. I could run out and snap photos, without worrying whether my experiments were working or not, because I wasn't spending anything on film. Then I could download them to my computer, and if I liked what I saw, I could post one on the Inuvik Home Page immediately. Just as quickly, interested people around the world could get a taste of what Inuvik looked like that very day.

This is a collection of some of my favourite pictures from that early experiment in digital photography.