Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Google?
the internet (ARPANET) came first, by 29 years. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
Side by side
| the internet (ARPANET) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1969 | 1998 |
| Date | 1969-10-29 | 1998-09-04 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first message was sent between two networked computers. | Google Inc. was incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park. |
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.
The date used here is the incorporation, 4 September 1998. Two others compete: the research project called BackRub began at Stanford in 1996, and the google.com domain was registered on 15 September 1997. Google itself has celebrated its birthday on four different September dates over the years, which is a fair indication that no single one is correct. It is younger than Amazon, eBay and Netflix.
Common questions
- Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Google?
- the internet (ARPANET), by 29 years — 1969 against 1998.
- When did the internet (ARPANET) start?
- 1969. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
- When did Google start?
- 1998. Google Inc. was incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park.
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