Chicken or Egg

Which came first? #2 · Brands & companies

Chicken or Egg, October 2: Twinings, Lego, Netflix, Google, Instagram

Puzzle #2, Brands & companies, Friday, October 2, 2026. Six things, one order. Here is the answer, earliest to latest.

Earliest
  1. 1
    Twinings1706

    Thomas Twining opened a tea room on the Strand in London in 1706. It is still there.

  2. 2
    Lego1932

    Ole Kirk Christiansen started making wooden toys in 1932. The plastic brick came in 1958.

  3. 3
    Netflix1997

    Netflix mailed DVDs starting in 1997. Google didn't exist yet.

  4. 4
    Google1998

    Incorporated September 1998 in a Menlo Park garage. Netflix was already a year old.

  5. 5
    Instagram2010

    Launched October 2010. Facebook bought it 18 months later for a billion dollars.

Latest
The twistNetflix came first. Netflix dates to 1997; Google to 1998. Most people put them the other way round.
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