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Which came first, the Macintosh or Python?

Which came first, the Macintosh or Python?
the Macintosh
1984 — 7 years before Python

the Macintosh came first, by 7 years. Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert.

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the Macintosh Python
Year 1984 1991
Date 1984-01-24 1991-02-20
Category technology technology
What happened Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly.

the Macintosh

The Macintosh launched in January 1984 with a graphical interface and a mouse, and beat Windows to market by almost two years. Neither invented the idea — Xerox PARC had built the Alto in 1973, and both Apple and Microsoft were working from what they had seen there. Mac OS X, the ancestor of today's macOS, arrived much later in 2001 and is Unix underneath.

Python

Python was started as a hobby project over Christmas 1989 and first released publicly in February 1991 — four years before Java, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby, all of which arrived in 1995. Most people assume it is much newer because its popularity arrived twenty years after it did. It is named after Monty Python, not the snake.

Common questions

Which came first, the Macintosh or Python?
the Macintosh, by 7 years — 1984 against 1991.
When did the Macintosh start?
1984. Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert.
When did Python start?
1991. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly.

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