Which came first, Mario or Wikipedia?
Mario came first, by 20 years. Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong.
Side by side
| Mario | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1981 | 2001 |
| Date | — | 2001-01-15 |
| Category | media | technology |
| What happened | Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong. | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. |
Mario
Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong in 1981, credited as Jumpman, four years before Super Mario Bros. of 1985 made him a household name. He wears a cap because animating hair at that resolution was impossible, and dungarees because they made his arm movements legible against his body — the design is entirely a consequence of an 16×16 pixel sprite.
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, Mario or Wikipedia?
- Mario, by 20 years — 1981 against 2001.
- When did Mario start?
- 1981. Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong.
- 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)