Which came first, Python or Wikipedia?
Which came first, Python or Wikipedia?
Python
1991 — 10 years before Wikipedia
Python came first, by 10 years. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly.
Side by side
| Python | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1991 | 2001 |
| Date | 1991-02-20 | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 publicly. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
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.
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, Python or Wikipedia?
- Python, by 10 years — 1991 against 2001.
- When did Python start?
- 1991. Guido van Rossum released version 0.9.0 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)