Earliest
Earliest adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
Usage example: the earliest computers were massive machines that practically filled up a room
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Technology Marches On: The "Money for Nothing" music video had some of the earliest CGI animation, which looks extremely primitive today, but it was considered groundbreaking in its original release.
Source: Music / Dire Straits - The jaggy, primitive look of the earliest episodes seems charmingly quaint, but back in the early 1990s it was cutting-edge stuff.
Source: All-CGI Cartoon -
Attack of the Mutant is one of the earliest and most primitive uses of this technique, actually predating the usually-cited Trope Maker by three years.
Source: Cel Shading
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