It was first launched by Kendo, the LVMH initiative to develop beauty brands.
First launched by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 21 years ago, and later supported by the government, funding has now dried up.
Russian airstrikes in Syria, the first launched by Moscow outside the former Soviet Union since 1979, have set the tone for what's to come.
Alex Roland, a historian of technology at Duke University and a former NASA historian, said that a first launching by Americans would have merely confirmed their reputation for technological superiority.
While the prospect of aliens was first launched by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, almost everyone in the astronomy community agreed that the chances that this was the case were "very low".
Using a map that was first launched by the former Labour administration in October 2009, the coalition government has taken temperature data from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other climate research centres and imposed it on to a Google Earth layer.
The facility to attach evidence of such incidents, which is often vital to securing disciplinary or criminal action against people committing abuse, is a significant improvement to the reporting app first launched by Kick It Out in July 2013.
In the end, Trump's wall is likely to be the latest addition to the border barrier-building frenzy first launched by President Bill Clinton, greatly expanded by George W. Bush and continued by Obama.
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, is lining up another £10bn to extend the "help to buy" programme first launched by George Osborne in 2013, which has already sucked up £10bn of taxpayers' cash.
