Which came first, Apple or the World Wide Web?
Apple came first, by 13 years. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
Side by side
| Apple | the World Wide Web | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1989 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | — |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN. |
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 World Wide Web
Berners-Lee circulated his proposal in March 1989, built the first browser and server by the end of 1990, and CERN put the software into the public domain in 1993. The Web is twenty years younger than the internet: the internet is the network, the Web is one service running on it, and email and file transfer both predate the Web by decades. The first website went live in December 1990 and is still online.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or the World Wide Web?
- Apple, by 13 years — 1976 against 1989.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did the World Wide Web start?
- 1989. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.
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Sources
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