Which came first, Apple or the internet (ARPANET)?
Which came first, Apple or the internet (ARPANET)?
the internet (ARPANET)
1969 — 7 years before Apple
the internet (ARPANET) came first, by 7 years. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
Side by side
| Apple | the internet (ARPANET) | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1969 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1969-10-29 |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | The first message was sent between two networked computers. |
Apple
Apple was founded on 1 April 1976, a year and a day after Microsoft. Ronald Wayne, the third founder, sold his 10% stake back for $800 twelve days later. The Apple I was a bare circuit board sold for $666.66; the Apple II of 1977 was the machine that made the company.
the internet (ARPANET)
On 29 October 1969 a team at UCLA tried to send the word "login" to Stanford. The system crashed after two characters, so the first message ever sent over the internet's ancestor was "lo". By the end of that year the network had four nodes. The internet is twenty years older than the Web, and confusing the two is the single most common error in this whole subject.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or the internet (ARPANET)?
- the internet (ARPANET), by 7 years — 1969 against 1976.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did the internet (ARPANET) start?
- 1969. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
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Sources
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