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unusual facts about early adopters



United States Military Standard

In the late 18th century and throughout the 19th, the American and French militaries were early adopters and longtime developmental sponsors and advocates of interchangeability and standardization.


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American Information Exchange

Among early adopters, the computer industry itself became the source of many early markets such as a network for the exchange of libraries of object-oriented computer code.

Apple II sound cards

Herbie Hancock and Keith Emerson were notable early adopters of the Syntauri system.

Contactless payment

Mobil was one of the most notable early adopters of this technology, and offered their "Speedpass" contactless payment system for participating Mobil gas stations as early as 1997.

Slugging percentage

Allen Barra and George Ignatin were early adopters in combining the two modern-day statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base).