WHEN DID DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY BEGIN?

I thought an historical outline of the digital medium and its beginnings would be of interest to Gon members. Any additional info to add would be appreciated.
1. 1937. British scientist Alec Reeves files the first patent describing pulse-code modulation.
2. 1943. Bell Telephone Labs develops the first digital scrambled speech transmission system, SIGSALY.
3. 1957. Max Mathews of Bell Labs develops the process to
digitally record sound via computer.
4. 1967. The first digital audio magnetic tape recorder
was invented by Technical Research Labs of Japan's NHK
broadcasting network. A 12-bit 30 kHz stereo device using
a compander noise process to extend the dynamic range.
5. 1970. James Russell patents the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system, which would later lead to the compact disc.
6. 1972. Denon invents the first 8-track reel to reel digital recorder.
7. 1975. Thomas Stockham, through his company, Soundstream,
makes the first digital audio recordings from a digital audio recorder he designed, which became the first commercial recorder available to the pro industry.
8. 1978. Sound 80 Records of Minneapolis records "Flim and the BB's" directly to digital before pressing the vinyl LP.
9. 1979. The first digitally recorded vinyl record of popular music "Bop Til You Drop" by guitarist Ry Cooder.
10. 1980. Sony makes the first compact disc and takes the cut out perforations pattern from player piano paper music rolls from 100 years earlier and duplicates the pattern to the surface of the compact disc and the perforations from the player piano roll become pits on the disc for the laser to read.
11. 1980. Denon builds the worlds first commercial CD player for studio's.
12. 1980. Pioneer makes the worlds first commercial Laser movie disc and by 1986 produced laser movie disc players for the retail market.
13. 1982. Sony releases the CDP-101, the first CD player for the retail market in the Spring, followed by the Philips/Magnavox players in the Fall.
14. 1990. Digital radio begins in Canada using the L-band.
15. 1991. Digital audio tape is developed by Alesis called
ADAT, (Alesis Digital Audio Tape).
16. 1996. Sony develops the DVD and starts selling players in Japan which started selling in the USA in 1997. The minature laser disc, the DVD, was the death of the large laser disc which had 400 lines of horizontal resolution and the smaller DVD had 500 lines and superior audio.
17. 2000. In October, Sony develops the blu-ray disc prototype and continues to develop through April 2003 and releases blu-ray players in June 2006.