Which came first, Google or Wikipedia?
Google came first, by 3 years. Google Inc. was incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park.
Side by side
| Wikipedia | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1998 | 2001 |
| Date | 1998-09-04 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Google Inc. was incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
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.
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, Google or Wikipedia?
- Google, by 3 years — 1998 against 2001.
- When did Google start?
- 1998. Google Inc. was incorporated in a garage in Menlo Park.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
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Sources
- Typical range compiled from manufacturer specifications — At One Place
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)