But it wasn't until last week that the concept came under widespread scrutiny in the blogosphere.
Until last week printouts were sold, along with videos, in street markets across the country.
Until last week the federal authorities considered them a bunch of mildly criminal eccentrics.
"Management told us right up until last week that everything was on track, " Hunt said.
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Roughly 95% of commercial farmers were given until last week to vacate their properties.
And until last week, Nextel was the only wireless service provider in the U.S. offering the service.
Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief who Murdoch backed until last week, was arrested yesterday in London.
Until last week, for instance, Brazil's economy suffered from punishingly high interest rates needed to protect its exchange-rate peg.
Until last week, I was among those who had never heard of bitcoins.
The administration was unaware of the Foley allegations until last week, he said.
But until last week, cockling was one of the opportunities they turned to.
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It's not as if Sweden was happy and calm and contented until last week and then, suddenly, this trouble started.
"Until last week, a part of western North Carolina was literally a hidden minefield, " Nahmias told reporters in Atlanta Wednesday.
The Japanese currency's fall of nearly 17% from mid-November until last week was seen as a major factor pushing stocks higher.
The new owners, the Horatio Group, is controlled by Stephen Magorrian, who until last week was the owner of Botanic Inns.
The union says its members refused to sign the contract but there were no requests for drugs tests until last week.
Neither did Johnson until last week, when he blew ninth-inning leads against San Diego and Tampa Bay before collapsing against the Yankees.
Up until last week, the church had been shuttered only once in its history, which dates back to America's first European settlers.
Until last week, recent stock talk had been primarily gloom and doom.
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Slobodan Milosevic : Until last week he was Serbia's strongman since seizing power on the crest of a wave of Serbian nationalism.
Until last week, SIA had the best safety record in the world.
Until last week, getting into the Kentucky Derby was all about money.
Ms. Libfeld actually did choose to nurse her son until last week.
But until last week he had focused on the Senate, as Texas will supposedly have an election for that job next year, too.
May-Treanor and Jennings, who until last week hadn't lost an Olympic set for more than eight years, hung on to win in straight sets, but just barely.
We also now know that the fatal flaw wasn't discovered until last week - it then took until Tuesday of this week to unearth its true horror.
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Until last week, Japan obtained almost 30 percent of its electricity from uranium, roughly 25 percent each from coal and natural gas, and 10 percent from oil.
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She insisted that G4S actually had more than 20, 000 accredited security staff, and that until last week it appeared they would have too many contractors rather than too few.
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West Ham's good form since the turn of the year saw them competing for a place in next season's newly-formed Europa League, until last week's defeat at Everton ended their hopes.
Until last week, the United States paid lip service to the need to end of the Yugoslav strife while relying on the European Community's utterly ineffectual efforts to bring it about.
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