While digital cameras are a great way to take pics destined for your computer, scanned images will be around for a long time yet. Scanning is the only way to get that shoebox full of family photos into digital form, and for photo aficionados, 35mm cameras still provide higher quality than even the best consumer digital cameras. While you can use a home scanner to digitize prints and negatives, you don't have to do it yourself. Several photo services are available that will develop standard 35mm film, scan it, and deliver the results on floppy, CD, or even the Web. All of these services are convenient and relatively easy to use, though because of the space constraints of floppies, and the relatively low transfer rates of most Web connections, the resolution of pictures delivered in these formats usually aren't as high as you could produce even with a low-cost consumer scanner.
CDs solve the space and time issues neatly.
Both were developed by Kodak. PhotoCD PhotoCD, which first appeared in the late 80s, was a technology ahead of its time. So Photo CDs written in one session hold more than multisession discs. Interestingly, PhotoCD was originally marketed to consumers as a way to display images on a television set. The devices were comparatively expensive, and the developing was expensive too.