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The Photograph That Killed Kodak

Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975. then buried it. it killed them.

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Kodak invented the digital camera. Then they buried it — and it killed them.

In 1975, a Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson built the first digital camera. Kodak's response was to hide it, because it threatened their film business. For decades they sat on the future to protect the past.

By 2012, Kodak had filed for bankruptcy — destroyed by the exact technology it invented and refused to sell.

The photograph that killed Kodak was the one it took of itself.

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