Steam has always been something of a sub-culture unto itself, but in many ways it has been the forerunner of much which came later in the revolution.
The company said it has raised $12 million in new financing from Forerunner Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Forerunner's Kirsten Green joining the board of directors.
Despite hitting a few bumps along the way, it has shown the staying power that its forerunners did not.
It seemed exotic everywhere, never quite for the right reasons.Before the Spaniards brought the Mesoamerican turkey to Europe, it had been domesticated by forerunners of the Aztecs, first for its colourful feathers and then for its meat.
Yet both "Fela!" and "Bring It On" have few forerunners as models.
Although the novel has its forerunners and predecessors – Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes, de la Fayette – it gets into its stride with affluent, middle-class white men: Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett.
Unlike her forerunners, Ms. Fleming has had no ready-made forum for her conquests.
The idea of appealing to conserved quantities has its forerunners in Aronson's and Fair's appeal to energy and momentum.
But as a generation of Australians would know, Lady Bird has a forerunner: Looking for Alibrandi.
The forerunners of our representative democracy had no idea that any of these things would come into existence.
It is concluded that there is rapid development and achievement in the improvement of nanofibers for new applications, and electrospinning has become a forerunner in this field.
