Human beings have been able to take photos for about 200 years, and we have been able to record and broadcast video for about 100 years now, but access to both of these technologies in their nascence was heavily restricted by means. In effect you needed to be wealthy to use either technology. It was 1839 when the first consumer camera came to market at a cost of around $7,000 in today's money. The pursuit of photography as accessible to the everyday consumer did not emerge until the 20th century. It was also during this time several decades later that the first consumer camcorders came to market which similarly carried a high price of entry before later falling to a more affordable level.
It was really in the 1980s when consumer electronics experienced an explosion in popularity that most people will have bought their first cameras and camcorders that were intended to be kept and reused. Even with access to this technology growing it wasn't until around the early 2000s with the rise of camera phones predating smart phones that a similar explosion in photography happened, later amplified by the emergence of the smart phone and much higher quality image processing.
