Before 1999, Bhutan had banned television and internet to preserve its culture, environment, its identity etc.

Before the internet existed, the duo were a phenomenon surrounded by their own culture, analogous to the Twilight craze.

Before switching to internet scoring in 1997, the team owners were required to send in weekly line-ups via postcard to both the commissioner and opponents.

Before the internet, copies of any work were the trigger for copyright law, but Lessig raises the point of whether copies should always be the trigger, especially when considering the way digital media sharing works.

Before the popularity of internet dating, long-distance relationships were not as common, as the primary forms of communication between the romance lovers usually involved either telephone conversations or corresponding via mail.

Before the popularization of the internet, the " HLN SportsTicker " was the first available method of getting this information in real time rather than waiting for the local news, morning newspapers or ESPN SportsCenter.

Before his acting career took off, he ran Darkyl Media, a web site design firm, and also founded Fusefilm. com, a now defunct internet community for filmmakers.

Before 1992, internet administrators did not carry alt newsgroups that did not obtain some general community assent.

Before any such title was released, the promotion came to an end and both Chex Quest 1 and Chex Quest 2 became effectively unavailable until they were posted for download on internet fan pages several years later.

Before there was scifaiku on the internet, there was science fiction haiku.

Before its release in September, the album appeared on the internet on July 4, 2003, due to an advance copy being leaked.

Homicide returned to ROH on September 17 at the Death Before Dishonor IX internet pay-per-view, as his UWF contract prohibited him only from working television shows and regular pay-per-views.

Before Airhitch migrated to internet based communication in the 1990s, it operated out of North American offices including New York, Los Angeles ( Santa Monica ), San Francisco, Seattle, Montreal, and Vancouver, and numerous European cities including Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bonn, and Rome.

Before leaving for Malaysia, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doctored Hazmi's Saudi passport in order to conceal his travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and make it appear that Hazmi had come to Malaysia from Saudi Arabia via Dubai.

Before and during the Civil War, the Ohio River was called the " River Jordan " by slaves crossing it to escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad.

Before the start of the 1994 season, San Diego was not expected to do well because they had so many newcomers via the draft and free agency ; the Chargers ended up 22 new players on their roster and 10 of them became starters.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail listsThe term " e-log " has been used to describe journal entries sent out via e-mail since as early as March 1996.

Before the invention of the printing press, stories were passed on via oral tradition.

Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion achieved a world first by pre-releasing their own album via P2P networks themselves.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before the influx of non-native people via the Oregon Trail, the area between the Willamette River and Tualatin River had a scattering of early pioneer homesteads and farms.

" Before the collapse, the fishery was one of the most productive in the world due to the upwelling of cold, yet nutrient-rich water from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that is funneled to the surface via the vast underwater Monterey Canyon.

Before monosaccharide units are incorporated into glycoproteins, polysaccharides, or lipids in living organisms, they are typically first " activated " by being joined via a glycosidic bond to the phosphate group of a nucleotide such as uridine diphosphate ( UDP ), guanosine diphosphate ( GDP ), thymidine diphosphate ( TDP ), or cytidine monophosphate ( CMP ).

Before creating VLANs on the switch that will propagate via VTP, a VTP domain must first be set up.

Before that, Fair Grove didn't have any High Speed Internet providers-many residents and businesses had to get their Internet via satellite or they had to have Dial-Up service.

Before the creation of the two Lake Washington bridges, residents commuted to Seattle via the Gazelle, a small ferry which chugged into Cozy Cove each morning at 7: 15.

Before the Civil War, Racine was well known for its strong opposition to slavery, with many slaves escaping to freedom via the Underground Railroad passing through the city.

Before that their ' voice ' was used in Showcase # 23, when they told Hal via the Power Battery of an emergency on Venus.

Before the end of the year, the airline were inaugurated services to Beijing ( October ) and Cairo ( November ), via Kuala Lumpur and Bahrain, respectively.

Before its physical release, the band made it available worldwide for streaming via its Myspace page.

Before the line closures of the Beeching era, the lines to Buxton and via Millers Dale were considered the main lines from London to Manchester, carrying named expresses such as The Palatine.

Before spawning, the male attracts the female via courting behaviour.

Before the 1980s, it was often speculated that cannabinoids produced their physiological and behavioral effects via nonspecific interaction with cell membranes, instead of interacting with specific membrane-bound receptors.

Before construction of the canal, Lake Union emptied into Salmon Bay via a creek which followed roughly the same course as the Fremont Cut does today.

Before exiting the jugular foramen, the tympanic nerve enters the petrous portion of the temporal and ascends via the inferior tympanic canaliculus to the tympanic cavity.

Before the flight's cancellation, the flight also served medical referrals from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to Manila and non-USA visa alien contract workers who were unable to transit to their final destinations via Guam ; Vergara said that the alien workers " particularly were Air Micronesia ’ s captive audience.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before 1950, the term grandmaster was sometimes informally applied to other world class players.

Before age 13 she had broken into the top 100 players in the world and the British Chess Magazine declared, " Judit Polgár's recent results make the performances of Fischer and Kasparov at a similar age pale by comparison.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

Before we were born, we existed in a perfect world where we knew everything.

Before the contemporary period, the most significant scholar of Proclus in the English speaking world was Thomas Taylor, who produced English translations of most of his works, with commentaries.

Before long the world was transformed.

Before the formal charter signing in 2000, URI supporters around the world participated together in a project called " 72 Hours for Peace ", in which more than 250 local organizations united in projects promoting peace and justice during the turn of the millennium.

Before the Second World War, the Czech Republic was one of the most advanced countries in the world.

Before his methods were commercialised in 1987 his laboratory was the only centre carrying out DNA fingerprinting in the world, and during this period of about two or three years it was very busy, receiving inquiries from all over the globe.

Before the Abenaki — except the Pennacook and Mi ' kmaq — had contact with the European world, their population may have numbered as many as 40, 000.

Before an eradication effort was launched in 2001, the sub-Antarctic Campbell Island had the highest population density of brown rats in the world.

Before completing his studies, Boyle decided " to gain learning, knowledge, and experience abroad in the world " and left London for a new start in Ireland.

* Before Arda ( the world ) was made.

Before its destruction in 226 BC — due to an earthquake — the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters ( 107 ft ) high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

Before long dozens of mirror websites were set up on servers around the world.

Before his induction, Anderson had refused to go inside the Hall because he felt unworthy, saying " I didn't ever want to go into the most precious place in the world unless I belonged.

Before the late 19th century, the concept of a world war would be the result of military action caused by quarrels between European powers which took place in fairly limited, though sometimes far-flung, theaters of conflict.

Before long, IBM had the best-selling personal computer in the world and at least two of the next-best sellers were, for practical purposes, identical.

The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction Between Combatant and Civilian ( Cornell University Press ; 2011 ) 264 pages ; explores ambiguities and inconsistencies in the principle since its earliest formulation ; discusses how the world wars and the Algerian war of independence shaped the issue.

Before the band's 1973 – 74 world tour, Hayward wrote a song called " Island " with the intention of including it on a potential follow-up album, which the Moodies recorded in 1973 before ultimately going their separate ways.

Before the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Fort Hood was billed as the largest military base in the free world ( Fort Benning is larger in personnel though not in land area ).

Before starting his professional life in entertainment, he explored a number of possible careers, such as medicine and professional boxing, before joining the entertainment world as a dancer.