Which came first, Instagram or the World Wide Web?
the World Wide Web came first, by 21 years. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.
Side by side
| the World Wide Web | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2010 | 1989 |
| Date | 2010-10-06 | — |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN. |
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.
the World Wide Web
Berners-Lee circulated his proposal in March 1989, built the first browser and server by the end of 1990, and CERN put the software into the public domain in 1993. The Web is twenty years younger than the internet: the internet is the network, the Web is one service running on it, and email and file transfer both predate the Web by decades. The first website went live in December 1990 and is still online.
Common questions
- Which came first, Instagram or the World Wide Web?
- the World Wide Web, by 21 years — 1989 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- When did the World Wide Web start?
- 1989. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.
Related pages
- Microsoft or the World Wide Web? Microsoft
- Apple or the World Wide Web? Apple
- the internet (ARPANET) or the World Wide Web? the internet (ARPANET)
- the internet (ARPANET) or Instagram? the internet (ARPANET)
- email or the World Wide Web? email
- email or Instagram? email
- the Macintosh or the World Wide Web? the Macintosh
- Windows or the World Wide Web? Windows
- the World Wide Web or YouTube? the World Wide Web
- Python or the World Wide Web? the World Wide Web
- Java or the World Wide Web? the World Wide Web
- JavaScript or the World Wide Web? the World Wide Web
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)