Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

Until the election of his son George W. Bush to the presidency in 2000, Bush was commonly referred to simply as " George Bush "; since that time, the forms " George H. W. Bush ", " Bush 41 ", " Bush the Elder ", and " George Bush, Sr ." have come into common use as a way to distinguish the father from the son.

Until 2000 the precision of the GPS signal available to non-U. S .- military users was deliberately severely limited by a timing pulse distortion process known as selective availability.

Until the year 2000 the proportion of children 0 – 14 years of age was over 40 % of the total population.

Until Daniel Schacter published Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers: Richard Semon and the Story of Memory in 2000, Semon's work had little influence, though it was quoted extensively in Erwin Schrödinger's prescient 1956 Tarner Lecture " Mind and Matter ".

Until 2000, it was thought that rock sequences spanning the Permian-Triassic boundary were too few and contained too many gaps for scientists to determine reliably its details.

Until 2000, before being eligible for membership in the Shrine, a person had to complete either the Scottish Rite or York Rite degrees of Masonry, but now any Master Mason can join.

Until 1996, cryptographic code was legally a munition, and until 2000 export required a permit.

Until the Oxford University Press edition was published in 2000, the available orchestral parts reflected many of the standard D ' Oyly Carte alterations, although the traditionally cut songs were available to those who wanted them.

Until the 2000 Olympics, the distance was 300 metres.

Until the 2000 Olympics, the distance was 4 kilometres.

Until about 2000, it housed offices for Independence National Historical Park.

Until 2000, the country's net migration was at a negative.

Until 2000 it held the position of state church.

Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America ( DGA ) when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film.

* Hapgood, Charles Hutchins ; Mystery in Acambaro: Did Dinosaurs Survive Until Recently ?, 2000, Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 0-932813-76-3.

Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways.

Until 2000, the county had gone consistently Democratic in presidential elections.

Until the coming of the railway in 1857, Beckenham was a small village in the county of Kent with almost completely rural surroundings: once a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas here, its population soared from 2000 to 26, 000 during 1850-1900 and throughout the rest of the century.

Until 2000, Canada's only federal correctional facility for women, the Prison for Women ( nicknamed " P4W ") was also located in Kingston.

Until 2000 Fairmeade was an independent Sixth class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

Until 2000 Plymouth Village was an independent Sixth Class city.

Until 2000 Springlee was an independent Sixth Class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

Until its closing in 2000, Bradford College provided liberal arts higher education in Haverhill.

Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

Until the 1960s, the predominant forms of music played on the flat-top, steel-string guitar remained relatively stable and included acoustic blues, country, bluegrass, folk, and several genres of rock.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by lack of legal rights, anti-union legislation, management-organized factory councils, and political divisions between “ cooperative ” and radical unionists.

Until the Renaissance, navigational technology remained comparatively primitive.

Until 1948 it remained owned by Munn & Company.

Until after Wilde's death his name remained disgraced and few discussed, let alone performed, his work.

Until its final dissolution in 1806 the House of Habsburg remained the ruling dynasty.

Until 1060 the kings of Uppsala ruled most of modern Sweden except the southern and western coastal regions, which remained under Danish rule until the 17th century.

Until the 1224 AD / CE, however, there remained a strong Muslim segment of society.

Until the 10th century, Coptic remained the spoken language of the native population outside the capital.

Until 1998, the leadership of Aryan Nations remained firmly in the hands of Richard Girnt Butler.

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers.

Until 1848 he remained on friendly terms with the German communists, occasionally calling himself a communist and writing articles on communism in the Schweitzerische Republikaner.

Until the 20th century he remained the major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.

Until recently, cassettes remained the dominant medium for purchasing and listening to music in some developing countries.

Until the English army came into view the invaders remained unaware of the presence of a hostile army anywhere in the vicinity.

Until 1985, when the first of twenty-four Saab 35 Draken were delivered, the country had remained essentially without the capacity to contest violations of its airspace.

Until 1936, Belgium remained allied to France and the United Kingdom.

Until 1461, Donatello remained in Siena, where he created a St. John the Baptist, also for the Duomo, and models for its gates, now lost.

Until the era of the Byzantine Empire, the interior of the enclosure remained exposed to the sky.

Until after the defeat of Cannae it remained faithful to Rome, but, after a vain demand that one of the consuls should always be selected from it or perhaps in order to secure regional supremacy in the event of a Carthaginian victory, it defected to Hannibal, who made it his winter quarters: he and his army were voluntarily received by Capua.

Until the late nineteenth century many Alpine valleys remained mainly shaped by agrarian and pastoral activities.

Until the early modern period, the two remained separate cities: Clermont, an episcopal city ; Montferrand, a comital one.