History Main / TheRuleOfFirstAdopters

* Referenced in ''Series/ThirtyRock'', where Tracy Jordan decides to combine two things he loves; porn and videogames. One of the guys in the writing staff tells him it's impossible because of the UncannyValley, and cites that all the best have tried, including the Japanese. Against all the odds Tracy actually ''succeeds'' in creating his porn video game.

* Before ''Anime/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and other [[ShonenDemographic children]]-[[ShoujoDemographic targeted]] shows were brought to America, [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles anime was practically synonymous with porn]]. This was because the only people who could afford it and had an interest were older sci-fi nerds looking for something different. Amusingly, that ''also'' brought in a group of people that cop to the idea that characters for those children-targeted shows were designed ''specifically'' so that porn would be made out of them (given the above statement that former eromangaka also work in clean comics), thus bringing the concept full circle.

* Sex is possible in-game in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''. While that wasn't the ''first'' adopter, when the designer built his VMMORPG [[MostDangerousVideogame deathtrap]], he made sure to include the option.

* ''[[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/11219 History of Pleasure]]'' argues that ''every'' historical and legendary event, no matter how serious it was in real life, was designed to distribute porn to the masses. It runs in the H-magazine ''Comic Kirakuten Beast'' ([[ProductPlacement so that's what the historical figures will be fighting over]]), but it's surprisingly merely {{Ecchi}}.

** And don't forget ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife]],'' (link is Wiki/TheOtherWiki) which is tentacle hentai [[OlderThanTheyThink dating back to]] ''[[OlderThanTheyThink 1814]]''...

* The pornographic game ''Sinful Robot'' is already in development for the upcoming virtual reality display [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift Oculus Rift]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' players quickly figured out that the ink/fluid physics easily allowed them to cover stages in ink penises.

* It's believed a similar dynamic was at work with the quick adoption of camera phones. Not long after their introduction, "sexting" -- sending nude pics to friends (specifically when done by [[JailbaitTaboo teenagers]]) -- became the latest [[YouCanPanicNow moral panic]] ''du jour''.

* The first comic books were repacked newspaper funny pages. The first comic books with original content were actually the (illegal) Tijuana Bibles, as the (NSFW) website shows; most of the earliest ones from [[TheRoaringTwenties The Twenties]] were basically the RuleThirtyFour of the day, featuring newspaper comic characters (or in some cases, [[RealPersonFic real people]].) It wasn't until TheThirties that original comics were published in the mainstream. The Tijuana Bible held on until TheSixties.

* The advent of social networking sites, as well as their art-sharing site cousins, inevitably leads to ero-artists looking for a site to [[ItsNotPornItsArt share their art]]. Once they catch wind of a popular new networking site with little rules on image content (like the Website/{{Twitter}}-like sharing site Pawoo), no doubt you will find them there within a week or two.

* Touched upon in [[http://xkcd.com/924/ this xkcd]], though not strictly porn...

* It's official: [[http://www.joblo.com/dvdclinic/index.php?id=6391 3D porno.]] Anybody who thinks that the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie is just a passing fad may now leave the room.
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168192/ It's been done before]].
*** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141186/ Hardcore, even]].

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** Few people remember it these days, but the same dynamic played out in the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc vs. CED [=VideoDisc=] battle in the early 1980s as well. RCA maintained a tight grip on CED manufacturing (there were only 2 plants in the world capable of making CED discs), and a handful of softcore, ''barely''-above-"R"-rated ''Playboy Video Centerfold'' discs were as far as they were willing to go into that territory (see also this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwZxC2Cz2g "internal use only" test disc]] featuring a stripper). [=LaserDiscs=], on the other hand... Although only a niche market in the the US, Europe, and Australia; [=LaserDiscs=] [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff were the dominant video medium]] in Japan, Hong Kong, and affluent areas of southeast Asia such as Singapore, until the new millennium. Also, by the time it came out, video cassette recorders were already established.

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** The only major use case for multiple angles on DVDs, besides internationalization and on other niche cases such as concerts, is for erotica, as it sure is exciting for the viewer to see the action unfold at different camera angles.

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-->'''Janet:''' Why is it that every time a new thing is invented humans immediately try to use it for porn?
-->'''Eleanor:''' Because we're disgusting.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' implied that use with Barclay and his holo-addiction and Geordi and that female engineer. In both cases the real people were very angry when they saw how their holographic selves were being used.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' seemed to be the only ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series to realise that the ''only'' thing most people would use a holodeck for would be having sex. Quark's was essentially a holo-brothel, although the Federation characters were just a bit too squeaky clean to ever use it for that (onscreen). You might wonder how anyone would ever get anything done in the 24th Century with the ability to create fully functional, three-dimensional interactive characters that have no free will whatsoever. As Scott Adams (creator of ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}})'' once wrote, "The holodeck will be mankind's last invention."

* When [[BenevolentAI Janet]] from ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' creates a highly realistic virtual reality software, Eleanor's first question is whether she can use it to simulate sex with a celebrity. Janet can't understand why this is the human reaction to new technology, but she later has to argue unconvincingly that a currently running scenario of her love interest in a sauna is "a glitch".

* A variation happens in {{Series/CobraKai}} in which [[DiscoDan Johnny Lawrence]] buys his first computer (an 10-year-old Dell laptop) and discovers the Internet for the first time. The ''very first'' thing he searches is "hot babes" and "wet t-shirt contests."

* It's believed a similar dynamic was at work with the quick adoption of camera phones. Not long after their introduction, "sexting" -- sending nude pics to friends (specifically when done by [[JailBait teenagers]]) -- became the latest [[YouCanPanicNow moral panic]] ''du jour''.

* In a PG example mixed with GettingCrapPastTheRadar, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has shipping magnate Verrick create the Avatar-verse version of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop Sallie Gardner at a Gallop]]''. His idea for how to use this new medium to its full potential? He wants to have MsFanservice Ginger pose for the camera.

* When [[BenevolentAI Janet]] from ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' creates a highly realistic virtual reality software, Eleanor's first question is whether she can use it to simulate sex with a celebrity. Janet can't understand why this is the human reaction to new technology, but she later has to argue unconvincingly that a currently running scneario of her love interest in a sauna is "a glitch".

** Few people remember it these days, but the same dynamic played out in the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc vs. CED [=VideoDisc=] battle in the early 1980s as well. RCA maintained a tight grip on CED manufacturing (there were only 2 plants in the world capable of making CED discs), and a handful of softcore, ''barely''-above-"R"-rated ''Playboy Video Centerfold'' discs were as far as they were willing to go into that territory (see also this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwZxC2Cz2g "internal use only" test disc]] featuring a stripper). [=LaserDiscs=], on the other hand... (Guess which format survived. Go on, guess.) Although only a niche market in the the US, Europe, and Australia; [=LaserDiscs=] [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff were the dominant video medium]] in Japan, Hong Kong, and affluent areas of southeast Asia such as Singapore, until the new millennium. Also, by the time it came out, video cassette recorders were already established.

-->--'''Website/{{Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html "5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World"]]

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' published an article regarding this phenomenon and [[TropesAreNotBad its positive implications]], [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html 5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World]].

* If you visit Amazon.com, the site usesenmcryption and allows you to use your credit card. If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, in addition to free shipping, you can stream free videos. Encryption, credit card acceptance, subscriptions, on-line shopping, and streaming video were all first developed for the needs of the on-line porn industry, but became very useful for non-erotic commerce, too.