Which came first, Apple or Wikipedia?
Which came first, Apple or Wikipedia?
Apple
1976 — 25 years before Wikipedia
Apple came first, by 25 years. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
Side by side
| Apple | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 2001 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
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.
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, Apple or Wikipedia?
- Apple, by 25 years — 1976 against 2001.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
Related pages
- Apple or Nintendo? Nintendo
- Apple or the Ford Motor Company? the Ford Motor Company
- Apple or Coca-Cola? Coca-Cola
- Apple or LEGO? LEGO
- Apple or Samsung? Samsung
- Apple or McDonald's? McDonald's
- Apple or Microsoft? Microsoft
- Apple or the internet (ARPANET)? the internet (ARPANET)
- Apple or email? email
- Apple or the Macintosh? Apple
- Apple or Windows? Apple
- Apple or the World Wide Web? Apple
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)