Which came first, Instagram or Wikipedia?
Which came first, Instagram or Wikipedia?
Wikipedia
2001 — 9 years before Instagram
Wikipedia came first, by 9 years. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
Side by side
| Wikipedia | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 2001 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
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.
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, Instagram or Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia, by 9 years — 2001 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- 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)