In this case it's arguably tied to 80s home computer nostalgia, but that itself rests on a bedrock of 'computers are boys' toys' sexism that gave us booth babes and all sorts of other nonsense. Magazines of the period had small ads for 'graphics collections' (soft porn) you could order on disk and of course much BBS culture was a way of accessing porn for boys either too young or too shy to buy it in magazine form.