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1995

November 22, 1995 Toy Story opens in United States theaters, the first feature-film to be made entirely with computer-generated imagery (CGI).

1995 After a five-year pilot project, the National Digital Library program begins digitizing selected collections of Library of Congress archival materials.

1996

1996 E-gold is launched, becoming the first successful digital currency system to gain a widespread user base and merchant adoption.

1998

October 23, 1998 The Last Broadcast is the first feature-length movie shot, edited and distributed digitally via satellite download to 5 theaters across the United States.

1998 Production of analog cameras peaks at almost 40 million as they are replaced by digital cameras.

2000

2000 The number of photos preserved on film annually peaks at 85 billion, rapidly replaced in subsequent years by digital photos.

2002

2002 Digital information storage surpasses non-digital for the first time.

2003

Over 50 billion paper checks were processed in the United States in 2003.

2004

2004 Google announces it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections.

2007

Robert W. Reeves. “Edward Lorenz Revisiting the Limits of Predictability and Their Implications: An Interview from 2007.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95, no.

2008

October 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto publishes "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," describing the first decentralized digital currency.

2008 More music is sold by iTunes than by Wal-Mart.

2010

2010 Production of digital cameras peaks at just over 120 million as they are replaced by smartphones.

2011

2011 Amazon.com sells more Kindle books than print books.

2012

December 2012 Annual e-commerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide for the first time.

2014

Summer 2014 The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 3 billion.

2015

2015 Digital America: A tale of the haves and have-mores, a McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, is the first major attempt to measure the ongoing digitization of the United States economy at a sector level.

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1995
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Eric Lunt,Marc Kiven,Mike Sands
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