When was OS/360 introduced? 1965 is when it shipped. Wow, that’s sure a long time ago for an operating system that was so influential on the world of modern computing: multitasking, compare and swap thread locking for concurrency, virtualization (OS/370), and so on.
20180620/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360_and_successors
So, related to what you were thinking about, for older technologies that got there first, but ultimately thrown by the wayside because they didn’t become as popular as the incompatible alternatives. This is it. This is the pinnacle of your example of the thing happening that you don’t like.