From the earliest region-position code, and then graphemic code to the very fashionable pinyin input method, it becomes wider, faster, intelligent and humanization.
Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.
There hadn't been anything really revolutionary in some years, so the video game boom was really falling off a cliff and Nintendo is what rescued in the US especially.