Remember when digital cameras stored photos on floppy disks?

In this wonderfully self-aware 1990 episode of Tomorrow’s World, presenters revisit the futuristic photographic gadgets they’d hyped throughout the 1980s—from floppy-disk digital cameras and 3D photo systems to autofocus lenses and disposable cameras. Marvel at which inventions actually survived contact with reality.

As so often happens with future tech, the flashy high-tech concepts mostly fizzled, while the cheap plastic camera everyone laughed at quietly conquered the market. No one anticipated our phones becoming our cameras.