Which came first, Amazon or Wikipedia?
Which came first, Amazon or Wikipedia?
Amazon
1994 — 7 years before Wikipedia
Amazon came first, by 7 years. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
Side by side
| Amazon | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 2001 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia launched in January 2001 as a scratchpad for Nupedia, a peer-reviewed encyclopedia project started in 2000 that had produced about two dozen articles in a year. The wiki produced more than that in its first month and Nupedia was abandoned in 2003. Wikipedia is older than Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the iPhone.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or Wikipedia?
- Amazon, by 7 years — 1994 against 2001.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)