Sentence examples for start of internet from inspiring English sources

The cut in the profit forecast reflects the cost of acquiring customers for the German mobile operation and the start of Internet operations there, a spokesman said.

A former accountant-turned-programmer, Birch 'lived the dream' as he says at the start of the Internet boom as the co-founder of the Internet based birthday reminder/ecard service BirthdayAlarm.com with his San Francisco-based brother and sister-in-law.

He had invented many of them "as tests for my work," said Mr. Grubb, whose résumé dates to the start of the Internet boom.

High-street retailers have been screaming as much since the start of the internet shopping revolution, and administrators to casualties have joined the chorus.

In the August issue of Wired, for example, Kevin Kelly celebrates the 10th anniversary of the initial public offering of Netscape stock, which he takes as marking the start of the Internet revolution.

A number of commentators have compared the Facebook I.P.O. to that of Netscape, in 1995, which is often cited as the start of the Internet boom (or bubble, if you prefer).

At the start of the Internet revolution, many dot-coms wrongly believed they could build national name recognition with online ads.

"This set of technologies reminds me of being at my startup in 1997 — at the start of the internet," he told me.

It's incredible really how times have changed since the start of the internet".

There's been open data in Finland since the start of the Internet.

Back then, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press had occurred 40 years prior (1458), just like the start of the internet dates back 40 years.