Which came first, Apple or Coca-Cola?
Which came first, Apple or Coca-Cola?
Coca-Cola
1886 — 90 years before Apple
Coca-Cola came first, by 90 years. John Pemberton first sold his syrup at a pharmacy in Atlanta.
Side by side
| Apple | Coca-Cola | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1886 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1886-05-08 |
| Category | company | company |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | John Pemberton first sold his syrup at a pharmacy in Atlanta. |
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.
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola went on sale in May 1886 as a patent medicine, selling about nine glasses a day in its first year. Pemberton sold the rights for a few thousand dollars and died in 1888 without seeing any of it. Pepsi followed in 1893 under the name Brad's Drink, renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898 — so Coke is seven years older, and both are older than the Ford Motor Company.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or Coca-Cola?
- Coca-Cola, by 90 years — 1886 against 1976.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did Coca-Cola start?
- 1886. John Pemberton first sold his syrup at a pharmacy in Atlanta.
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