Keep in mind, the Internet was born as an open standard and started from the military.
Two years ago, Microsoft scrapped its old mobile operating system and started from scratch.
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Though it started from a very different place, GeoCities has many of the same aims.
However, we need to keep in mind that China started from a very low level of GDP.
In essence, this means that any de-stocking phase in China started from a higher level than previously thought.
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Another difference is that we started from a base of 0% growth in 1992 to 6.8% in 1996.
With little hope of getting anything recovered, I gave up, fired up my Mac and started from scratch.
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To illustrate the point, consider two large businesses that started from diametrically opposite ends of the big data spectrum.
"Everything started from there, " says Fall, who also pursued an MBA from Georgetown University while in the United States.
Massa's performance was arguably even better than Alonso's, as he started from ninth due to a grid penalty in qualifying.
Lostwithiel's Steph Newton's musical life started from a young age where she was taught how to play the piano by her grandfather.
Today we started from the get-go and we finished with solid game.
He said they started from the club's base at Gransden Lodge Airfield on the border of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire at 13:40 BST.
Mortgages are only one of the products that have started from scratch.
Soares and Bierman reported the jumping guppies started from a still position, swam backwards slowly, then changed direction and hurtled into the air.
The 18-year-old from Oxford started from pole and held off the challenge of Spain's Nicolas Terol, with previous championship leader Julian Simon third.
Barrichello, who started from pole, managed to avoid the chaos on lap one and was leading until his first pit stop on lap 21.
It even looked at one stage as though the Yamaha rider, who had started from pole position, was going to pip Rossi to second.
Things are moving in the right direction, but in the UK we started from a low base with few women breastfeeding in the 70s.
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Chavez's hearse started from the military academy, which is surrounded by bare-brick slums that cling to hillsides rising almost vertically into the Caribbean sky.
Yet with all of that year-over-year growth, which started from a small initial base, the Internet still accounts for just 7% of overall retail sales.
Once inside an app, sliding your finger from any edge across the screen brings you back to whichever of the three views you started from.
Stoner, who started from the pole last year at Laguna Seca, flipped off his bike moments after Lorenzo's crash and also landed on the track.
With Wasteland, we are a year in, and it would have taken at least two years to get this far if we had started from scratch.
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Coulthard's McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who started from the back of the grid following an engine failure in qualifying, scored his first point of the season.
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"Punk fashion started from the street and percolated up, and suddenly couture seemed out of touch and not relevant, " said Hamish Bowles, Vogue's international editor at large.
Button, who started from second on the grid, made a rare mistake as he drove into the side of HRT's Narain Karthikeyan and lost his front wing.
In "Gulliver's Travels, " Swift described a vicious conflict between the Big-Enders, who ate their eggs with the big end up, and the Little-Enders, who started from the little end.
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They are a special breed, and I think a lot of the horses in England and Wales started from these, these are the gene pool for thousands of different breeds.
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