Which came first, Wikipedia or YouTube?
Wikipedia came first, by 4 years. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
Side by side
| Wikipedia | YouTube | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2001 | 2005 |
| Date | 2001-01-15 | 2005-02-14 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia. | The domain was registered; the first video followed in April. |
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.
YouTube
The youtube.com domain was registered on Valentine's Day 2005, the first video — "Me at the zoo", 19 seconds of a co-founder at San Diego Zoo — was uploaded on 23 April, and the site opened publicly in the winter. Google bought it in November 2006 for $1.65 billion, about twenty months after the domain was registered. It is younger than Facebook by a year and older than Twitter by one.
Common questions
- Which came first, Wikipedia or YouTube?
- Wikipedia, by 4 years — 2001 against 2005.
- When did Wikipedia start?
- 2001. Wikipedia launched as a side project to feed a different encyclopedia.
- When did YouTube start?
- 2005. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)