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Which came first, Wikipedia or the World Wide Web?

Which came first, Wikipedia or the World Wide Web?
the World Wide Web
1989 — 12 years before Wikipedia

the World Wide Web came first, by 12 years. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.

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Wikipedia the World Wide Web
Year 2001 1989
Date 2001-01-15 —
Category technology technology
What happened Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.

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.

the World Wide Web

Berners-Lee circulated his proposal in March 1989, built the first browser and server by the end of 1990, and CERN put the software into the public domain in 1993. The Web is twenty years younger than the internet: the internet is the network, the Web is one service running on it, and email and file transfer both predate the Web by decades. The first website went live in December 1990 and is still online.

Common questions

Which came first, Wikipedia or the World Wide Web?
the World Wide Web, by 12 years — 1989 against 2001.
When did Wikipedia start?
2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
When did the World Wide Web start?
1989. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the proposal at CERN.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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