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by cperciva 5198 days ago
The first example which came to mind was the internet. After that, smart phones.
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The internet came on the market in 1982, 7 years later it was still pretty much only in universities.

If you count 1992 - when com connection was really allowed and the web was invented it probably still wasn't in all that many homes 7 years later. 1999 was still dial-up for me and I was a Caltech grad student!