Came here to comment, my first exposure to NVIDIA was the Riva 128, then I got a Riva TNT 16mb a little later which despite being only 1 generation difference was much faster.

I forget when and what my first GeForce card was. Somehow those earlier ones were imprinted in my memory. Perhaps because each generation had a unique name, whereas "GeForce" has been common for decades now.

I also remember sometime during the dotcom boom, hearing a CNBC anchor struggling to pronounce and explain what Nvidia was. From the narrow lens of that memory, we are sort of still in that exact same place.