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title: "Which came first, Apple or JavaScript?"
description: "Apple vs JavaScript: Apple came first, by 19 years — 1976 against 1995. What happened in each case, and why the dates are often given differently."
url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/apple-vs-javascript/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Which came first, Apple or JavaScript?

**Which came first, Apple or JavaScript?: Apple**

1976 — 19 years before JavaScript

Apple came first, by 19 years. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.

## Side by side

|  | Apple | JavaScript |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 1976 | 1995 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | — |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Brendan Eich wrote it in ten days for Netscape Navigator. |

## 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.

## JavaScript

JavaScript was written in about ten days in May 1995, shipped in Netscape Navigator 2.0 later that year, and was called LiveScript until December, when Netscape renamed it as part of a marketing deal with Sun. It has nothing to do with Java beyond some borrowed syntax. Standardisation as ECMAScript followed in 1997, and the language spent a decade being treated as a toy before it became the most widely deployed programming language in the world.

## Common questions

### Which came first, Apple or JavaScript?

Apple, by 19 years — 1976 against 1995.

### When did Apple start?

1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.

### When did JavaScript start?

1995. Brendan Eich wrote it in ten days for Netscape Navigator.

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