Which came first, Harry Potter or Wikipedia?
Harry Potter came first, by 4 years. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.
Side by side
| Harry Potter | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1997 | 2001 |
| Date | 1997-06-26 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | media | technology |
| What happened | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
Harry Potter
Bloomsbury published the first book in June 1997 with a print run of 500 copies, most of which went to libraries, after twelve other publishers had rejected the manuscript. The company's chairman gave the first chapter to his eight-year-old daughter, who demanded the rest. It came out the same year as Netflix was founded and a year before Google.
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, Harry Potter or Wikipedia?
- Harry Potter, by 4 years — 1997 against 2001.
- When did Harry Potter start?
- 1997. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in the UK.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)