Which came first, Java or Wikipedia?
Java came first, by 6 years. Sun Microsystems announced Java publicly.
Side by side
| Java | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1995 | 2001 |
| Date | 1995-05-23 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Sun Microsystems announced Java publicly. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
Java
Java was announced in May 1995, having started in 1991 as a project called Oak aimed at interactive television — a market that did not exist yet. Its promise was "write once, run anywhere", achieved by compiling to bytecode for a virtual machine rather than to a specific processor. JavaScript arrived seven months later and was named after it purely as a marketing decision; the two languages are unrelated.
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, Java or Wikipedia?
- Java, by 6 years — 1995 against 2001.
- When did Java start?
- 1995. Sun Microsystems announced Java publicly.
- 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)