But the revolution started in earnest in the mid-2000s with the rise of Five Guys.
And while the app revolution started with the easy stuff like games, social interaction, Instagram-like photo services, making newspapers easier to read mobile, or restaurants easier to schedule, apps now migrate to seeing, controlling and scheduling everything in the interstices of our economy, including things like automotive and aircraft maintenance.
By contrast the computer revolution (really, the microprocessor revolution) that started in the 1960s does indeed seem fundamental, perhaps comparable in scope and impact to the creation of coins.
"They were obviously making changes from the middle of the century -- in the '30s, '40s and '50s - when the seminaries were packed full, but probably after the whole peace revolution and the sexual revolution guys obviously started having a lot of second thoughts, " he said.
During the revolution that started in Mexico in 1910, the church backed a losing faction.
The silicon revolution that started back then with the personal computer, led to the Internet in the 1990s and broadband in the 2000s.
The recent spurt in American productivity may be the productivity pay-off from the computer revolution, which started 50 years ago with the invention of the transistor.
But now big pharma is getting into the act, trying to produce generic versions, the very medicines (to treat multiple sclerosis, diabetes, anemia, deficiencies in growth hormone and the like) that started the biotech revolution 30 years ago and gave rise to Genentech, Amgen and Biogen Idec.
France gave the statue to the US in 1886 as a symbol of the friendship that started during the American Revolution.
The game that more or less started the social gaming revolution is back.
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That concept is the basis for four formulas I first developed a decade ago, when the Internet and information revolution started.
That made fracking economic and started the revolution.
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The natural gas revolution began in the transit sector as communities started looking for realistic, low-emissions options for their fleets.
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The renegade was born out of preparation which is largely attributable to our new marching orders which started with the technology revolution and information age.
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Art may not have started the Egyptian revolution, but it played a large part once the spark was lit.
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It was Ecclestone who started the F1 revolution in the 1980s by persuading team owners that he should negotiate on their behalf for television and marketing rights.
And the changes are just getting started with the most exciting parts of that revolution being ahead of us.
Morsi's words must be followed closely, but they must be matched against his actions, especially in the longer term, when the cameras leave Tahrir Square, the place where Egypt's revolution started with calls for real democracy and equality.
Employers started the managed-care revolution by herding their workers into HMOs, but now a third of companies polled by the Washington Business Group on Health express concern that the pressure to keep costs down is hurting the quality of care their employees receive.
Jeff Bezos started Amazon and launched the e-commerce revolution.
The Internet revolution that gave consumers more control with more convenient choices was started by a relatively small number of pioneers.
Political leaders from eastern Libya, where most of the country's oil is pumped and last year's revolution started, demanded a high degree of autonomy.
But on February 1st, he started a new job as CEO of Revolution Analytics, the company supporting, spreading, and enhancing R, the open-source statistics and predictive analytics programming language.
Celebrities have not only upped the ante in terms of trendy maternity fashion, but they have also started a revolution in showcasing their pregnant bellies.
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Siemens started building the Bushehr plant in 1975, but quickly abandoned the project after the Islamic revolution took place in Iran four years later.
This sartorial revolution started, inevitably, in Silicon Valley, but by last spring it had stormed even the most sober and traditional banks, consultancies and law firms of Manhattan and the City of London.
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