Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Instagram?
Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Instagram?
the internet (ARPANET)
1969 — 41 years before Instagram
the internet (ARPANET) came first, by 41 years. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
Side by side
| the internet (ARPANET) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1969 | 2010 |
| Date | 1969-10-29 | 2010-10-06 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first message was sent between two networked computers. | The app launched on iOS. |
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.
Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.
Common questions
- Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Instagram?
- the internet (ARPANET), by 41 years — 1969 against 2010.
- When did the internet (ARPANET) start?
- 1969. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
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Sources
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