I had two or three different film cameras as a kid - both 126 film I think. One I got free with a magazine subscription I think. They used the rotating cube flash. I thought my older sister's cameras, which were 110 film I think, were cooler because they had a stacked flash with about 8 uses, as compared to the four uses on the rotating cubes. Thinking of them reminds me of the smell when they went off. Eventually I think I got a 126 Yashica camera with a built in flash!
For college graduation I got my first digital camera - a 1.3 megapixel Olympus D360. That was stolen, I replaced it with a 2.1 megapixel Olympus D510.
Meanwhile, my girlfriend/fiancé/wife didn't like digital, so I got her a Canon EOS Rebel 2000 35mm camera. Got a superzoom Tamron for it. Also an APS Minolta camera - a Vectis 300 I think.
The second Olympus camera broke, and I think I replaced it with a Canon SD1000, which I still have. A few years later I got my wife a T1i. Then when I took up the hobby a couple years ago I upgraded to a T4i and now a 70D.
Funny - in the beginning of digital pictures - they were less used than film, at least in my experience. Digital pictures just sat on a computer, you couldn't easily share them or use them. You could of course, but it seemed so awkward compared to pulling out pictures or a photo album. Now - the exact opposite is the case. Developed film just sits in a box somewhere. I can access any digital picture I've ever taken in a few seconds from anywhere. No need to wipe dust off the box. I've had about half my film negatives scanned in, I'll send the other half in next year probably.