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Which came first, the Macintosh or Wikipedia?

Which came first, the Macintosh or Wikipedia?
the Macintosh
1984 — 17 years before Wikipedia

the Macintosh came first, by 17 years. Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert.

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the Macintosh Wikipedia
Year 1984 2001
Date 1984-01-24 2001-01-15
Category technology technology
What happened Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.

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.

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, the Macintosh or Wikipedia?
the Macintosh, by 17 years — 1984 against 2001.
When did the Macintosh start?
1984. Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert.
When did Wikipedia start?
2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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