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title: "Which came first, the iPhone or pizza?"
description: "the iPhone vs pizza: pizza came first, by 227 years — 1780 against 2007. What happened in each case, and why the dates are often given differently."
url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/iphone-vs-pizza/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Which came first, the iPhone or pizza?

**Which came first, the iPhone or pizza?: pizza**

1780 — 227 years before the iPhone

pizza came first, by 227 years. Tomato-topped flatbread was being sold in Naples.

## Side by side

|  | the iPhone | pizza |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 2007 | 1780 |
| Date | 2007-06-29 | — |
| Category | technology | food |
| What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | Tomato-topped flatbread was being sold in Naples. |

## the iPhone

Announced on 9 January 2007 and on sale from 29 June, the first iPhone had no app store, no copy and paste, no 3G and no video recording. The App Store arrived over a year later in July 2008. Android Inc. had been founded in 2003, four years before the iPhone, but the first Android phone shipped fifteen months after it.

## pizza

Flatbreads with toppings are ancient, but pizza in the sense people mean — wheat base, tomato, baked in a wood oven — dates from Naples in the late 1700s, and could not have existed earlier because tomatoes only reached Europe from the Americas in the 16th century and were widely thought poisonous for two hundred years. The Margherita story, in which a Naples pizzaiolo created a red, white and green pizza for Queen Margherita in 1889, rests on a single document now widely believed to be a forgery. The first American pizzeria, Lombardi's in New York, was licensed in 1905.

## Common questions

### Which came first, the iPhone or pizza?

pizza, by 227 years — 1780 against 2007.

### When did the iPhone start?

2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.

### When did pizza start?

1780. Tomato-topped flatbread was being sold in Naples.

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