Which came first, Wikipedia or Windows?
Windows came first, by 16 years. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
Side by side
| Wikipedia | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2001 | 1985 |
| Date | 2001-01-15 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
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.
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, Wikipedia or Windows?
- Windows, by 16 years — 1985 against 2001.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)