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The first Toy Story movie came out in 1995, the year Internet Explorer was introduced and Amazon was still in its infancy. Tamagotchi, the tiny, pixelated video game that had hundreds of millions scrambling to keep their digital creatures alive, didn’t reach the U.S. for another two years. That year, Pixar’s ultimate villain was an 11-year-old boy who got a little too creative with rearranging the heads and arms of his secretly anthropomorphic toys.

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