Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched ( starting on 20 April 1964 based in London ), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour.

Originally formed as a gospel quartet, following the death of brother Vernon, the remaining trio launched a career into doo-wop scoring with their first million-selling hit single, " Shout ", in 1959.

Originally a private company, the Gartner Group was launched publicly in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet.

Originally a manufacturer of tape recorders, radios, television sets, stereo systems, and other home electronics, it launched its first home computer, the ABC 80 in 1978.

Originally NASA had proposed a direct lander using a variant of the Apollo Command Module launched atop of a Saturn IB rocket with a Centaur upper stage.

Originally, Zip disks launched with capacities of 100 MB, but later versions increased this to first 250 MB and then 750 MB.

Originally launched experimentally in the Montreal area, " Alex " was then launched in most areas served by Bell Canada ( primarily Ontario and Quebec ) with offers of a free trial period and terminal.

Originally Sky launched with a set top box known as the Sky digibox, however, in more recent years the Sky + and Sky + HD boxes have launched alongside the original box.

Originally launched in 2001, The Selector is an international showcase for the best new music the United Kingdom has to offer, covering a variety of genres from indie, dubstep, folk, soul, hip hop and more.

Originally a two-part presentation on the anthology series Desilu Playhouse, it made such a splash that a series was launched the following fall.

Originally launched in Toronto, the cast consisted of Sexton, Olsen, Greg Malone, Cathy Jones, Mary Walsh and Paul Sametz.

Originally launched in 1990, it is currently in its fourth generation as of 2012.

Originally commercial and subscription-driven, Shadowbane was launched in March 2003, and was the creation of text-MUD veterans J. Todd Coleman, James Nance, Josef Hall, Patrick Blanton and Robert Marsa and a team of 45 programmers, designers, artists and featured music by composer David Beaupre.

Originally launched as an independent station in March of 1985, it has been affiliated with Fox since the network's launch on October 6, 1986.

Originally launched as TurboNick, showcasing broadband content such as video clips and games.

Originally, speculation was rife over whether it would be launched on the Digital Satellite platform immediately.

Originally launched as UK Living in 1993, the channel changed its name to Living TV in 1997 and then to Living in 2007.

Originally offered with 1. 4L petrol and diesel engines, a turbocharged diesel engine was introduced in October 2005 ; a 1. 2L petrol engine in November 2006 and a DiCOR ( Direct Injection Common Rail ) diesel version of Indica V2 was launched in January 2008.

Originally launched with the pronunciation " one-double-oh-seven " and James Bond-style promotion, Peugeot revised their strategy under pressure from the Bond franchise owners.

Originally launched in September 1989, it was rebranded on 23 March 2009 by Global Radio in line with its rebranding of most of the One Network, to which the station was formerly part of.

Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was launched in 1999 under the direction of Gilman Louie.

Originally called Galaxy 105-106, presenter Steve Furnell launched the station on Tuesday 1 June 1999, with " What You Need " by Powerhouse feating Duane Harden being the first record played.

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

Originally, the Spanish had ordered regulations on trade with Cuba, which kept the island from becoming a dominant sugar producer.

Originally based on Martin Caidin's novel, Cyborg.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Originally at Texas Stadium, the ring is now on display at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

Originally, the procedure was used in clinical trials only on dachshunds that had suffered previous back incidents.

Originally, these privileges and immunities were granted on a bilateral, ad hoc basis, which led to misunderstandings and conflict, pressure on weaker states, and an inability for other states to judge which party was at fault.

Originally a street party held on Princes Street and the Royal Mile, the Hogmanay event has been officially organised since 1993.

Originally intended to be unkillable, SOE prevented a raid of several guilds on Rallos Zek server from potentially killing him, claiming the existence of a bug.

Originally focused largely on fashion, the exhibition now delves deeper into the contributions of first ladies to the presidency and American society.

; The Original Flatland Role Playing Game: Originally published in 1998 as an ' extra ' on the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM, and relaunched as a stand-alone PDF with additional material in 2006, this game uses a streamlined version of the Forgotten Futures rules adapted to the setting of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.

Originally based on the still-existent village of Inverlochy, the town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen, on the shores of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.

Originally used on gut-strung instruments, the strength of the system allowed the guitar to withstand the additional tension of steel strings when this fortunate combination arose in the early 20th century.

Originally, in the event of the death, resignation or impeachment of the governor, or absence from the state, the lieutenant governor would take on the governor's duties and powers.

Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages ( commonly referred to as " canticles ") in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God.

Originally based on linen, this quickly moved to wool and factories multiplied, driving the growth of the town.