Narendra Modi used a digital camera and email in the 1980s.

In India, internet services were launched on August 15, 1995, and the sale of commercial digital cameras began in the 1990s.

In India, internet services were launched on August 15, 1995, and the sale of commercial digital cameras began in the 1990s.In an interview with News Nation on May 11, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he had probably used a digital camera in 1987 or 1988, and that very few had emails at that time in Viramgam tehsil. He claimed that he had taken a picture of L.K.Advani during his address in Viramgam tehsil and transmitted it to Delhi, and a coloured photograph was printed and published.

Steven Sasson, an engineer at Kodak, invented the first digital camera in 1975, which captured black and white images at a resolution of 0.1 megapixels. The first digital colour camera called 'electronic still camera' was patented in 1978, but Sasson was not allowed to publish outside the Kodak company. The first modern digital single-lens reflex camera was made by Steven Sasson and Robert Hills in 1989.

Internet access for the Indian public officially began after the internet services were launched on August 15, 1995, by the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited. The government opened the telecommunications sector to private companies in November 1998.