Which came first, Twitter or Windows?
Windows came first, by 21 years. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
Side by side
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2006 | 1985 |
| Date | 2006-03-21 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
The first tweet — "just setting up my twttr" — went out on 21 March 2006, and the service opened publicly that July. The 140-character limit came from SMS: a text message allows 160 characters and 20 were reserved for the username. When the limit doubled to 280 in 2017 the SMS constraint had been irrelevant for years.
Windows
Windows 1.0 shipped in November 1985, twenty-two months after the Macintosh, and it was not an operating system — it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS, and remained so until Windows NT in 1993 and the consumer transition with Windows XP in 2001. Version 1.0 could not even overlap windows: they tiled, because Apple's legal position on overlapping windows was unresolved.
Common questions
- Which came first, Twitter or Windows?
- Windows, by 21 years — 1985 against 2006.
- When did Twitter start?
- 2006. Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)