In our example, there are two stocks&colon; Potential adopters and Adopters. The categories of adopters are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Rogers classified individuals into five groups&colon; innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Universities were early adopters of computing technology. Later users adopted the norms and practices of the early adopters. Trendsetters are the early adopters (or leavers) of markets. Big American steelmakers were late adopters of the new technology. Universities were among the early adopters of IPv6. Others may argue that not all fads begin with their adopters. Semiconductor manufacturers were also among JMP's early adopters. It attracted considerable ridicule in the press and relatively few adopters. This is when the number of individual adopters ensures that the innovation is self-sustaining. Naturists were early adopters of the game. Most early adopters were familiar with Unix from work or school. The Who were early adopters of Marshall Amplification.