In late '98 I had been playing around with online Kisekae sets (paper dolls) but wished there was a way to pose them. I ran across an online mentioning of Poser and looked into it. Poser 3 had just been released, and there was an upgrade offer from Poser 2, which could still also be bought for cheap.

 

It turned out to be cheaper to buy Poser 2 and the Poser 3 upgrade than to buy Poser 3 directly, so I went that route. Poser 3 was feature-limited by modern comparisons, so morphs worth having were a rarity. Zygote was the only game in town for good 3D humans, and supplied Poser with content, and also had the first Poser-ready offerings that could be ordered on a CD (and then when DVDs came out...)

Once I got Poser 7 and Aiko 3, that was it for me - the summit had been reached. I did not acquire anything new until PP2014 (for the Fitting Room) and have recently been experiencing the joys of Genesis 2, and running headlong into what appears to be an on-going war between Daz and Poser-users.