Sentence examples for back before the advent from inspiring English sources

Process control history goes back before the advent of electronics.

Think back to a time before Netscape and Yahoo were wonders of the Web, back before the advent of the $1,000 PC.

Back before the advent of microtechnology, if you asked a kid to imagine what a "drum machine" would look like, he or she would describe something big, with lots of levers and buttons something you and your friends can play with all at once and be as crazy as you want and a cool song will come out the other end.

BEFORE the advent of affordable helicopter rides, a backcountry ski trip was primitive.

Back then, even before the advent of cell phones and digital cameras which have been transforming in terms of documenting police violence back then, you were much more vulnerable if you were white and you wanted to wail on somebody.

Stepping back to the age before the advent of the high resolution digital image, before the widespread adoption of social media, before Web 2.0 and the dot-com boom, the early days of the world wide web, in the 1990's, gave rise to early user-based net art, such as Olia Lialina's 1996 project My Boyfriend Came Back from the War.

Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered.

The orchestrion's odd combination of 21st-century technology and 19th-century aesthetics — the contraption harks back to orchestral simulators popular before the advent of recorded music — is sure to fascinate, he said.

Just to utter the word "girdle," like the word "corset," which preceded it, is to hark back to fleshier, gaslit times — before the advent of pantyhose and before the diet and fitness industries had Balkanized women's imaginations — and thus stigmatize oneself as not only unfit but passé.

Their ambitions were grandiose – to "save" America as they saw it, at every level, by turning the clock back to the Gilded Age before the advent of the Progressive Era.

The 'Dick Tracy watch' vision has led to multiple wrist-phone creations, dating back to before even the advent of the iPhone.