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Which came first: the World Wide Web or Yahoo!?

The World Wide Web came first, in 1989 (invented). Yahoo! followed 5 years later, in 1994 (founded).

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  1. First1989

    The World Wide Web

    invention · invented

    Tim Berners-Lee proposed the web at CERN in March 1989, without even giving the system a name.

    Checked against Wikipedia and Wikidata

  2. Second1994

    Yahoo!

    website · founded

    Yahoo! was founded in 1994 as a list of websites.

    Checked against Wikipedia and Wikidata

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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.