Which came first, Instagram or Windows?
Which came first, Instagram or Windows?
Windows
1985 — 25 years before Instagram
Windows came first, by 25 years. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
Side by side
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 1985 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
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.
Windows
Windows 1.0 shipped in November 1985, twenty-two months after the Macintosh, and it was not an operating system — it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS, and remained so until Windows NT in 1993 and the consumer transition with Windows XP in 2001. Version 1.0 could not even overlap windows: they tiled, because Apple's legal position on overlapping windows was unresolved.
Common questions
- Which came first, Instagram or Windows?
- Windows, by 25 years — 1985 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)