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In your 106 years you’ve been around for…

  • 23 Prime Ministers
  • 5 monarchs
  • the first Moon landing
  • 23 World Cups
  • +6.3 billion people on Earth

More 1920 discoveries are being added

We're filling in 1920 in detail. In the meantime, the comparisons above and below always work — and every link from here leads somewhere interesting.

When these arrived

You were only…

  • 49 The Moon landing 1969
  • 51 The first email 1971
  • 59 The Sony Walkman 1979
  • 69 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
  • 74 The PlayStation 1994
  • 78 Google was founded 1998

A gentle reality check

Things that are younger than you

  • 1928 Penicillin discovered
  • 1928 Sliced bread went on sale
  • 1935 Radar demonstrated
  • 1936 The BBC Television Service launched
  • 1945 The United Nations was founded
  • 1946 The first general-purpose electronic computer
  • 1948 The NHS was founded
  • 1953 The structure of DNA was discovered
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1920 vs today

A few things have changed since you arrived

A few things 1920 Today
  • Everyone on Earth about 1.9 billion about 8.2 billion

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