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Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Wikipedia?

Which came first, the internet (ARPANET) or Wikipedia?
the internet (ARPANET)
1969 — 32 years before Wikipedia

the internet (ARPANET) came first, by 32 years. The first message was sent between two networked computers.

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the internet (ARPANET) Wikipedia
Year 1969 2001
Date 1969-10-29 2001-01-15
Category technology technology
What happened The first message was sent between two networked computers. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.

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.

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, the internet (ARPANET) or Wikipedia?
the internet (ARPANET), by 32 years — 1969 against 2001.
When did the internet (ARPANET) start?
1969. The first message was sent between two networked computers.
When did Wikipedia start?
2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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