Your time capsule is ready
In your 79 years you’ve been around for…
- 17 Prime Ministers
- 3 monarchs
- the first Moon landing
- 20 World Cups
- +5.8 billion people on Earth
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We're filling in 1947 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…
- 22 The Moon landing 1969
- 24 The first email 1971
- 32 The Sony Walkman 1979
- 42 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
- 47 The PlayStation 1994
- 51 Google was founded 1998
A gentle reality check
Things that are younger than you
- 1948 The NHS was founded
- 1953 The structure of DNA was discovered
- 1953 Everest was climbed
- 1955 The first Guinness World Records book
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite
- 1959 The Mini went on sale
- 1961 The first human in space
- 1963 Doctor Who first aired
1947 vs today
A few things have changed since you arrived
A few things 1947 Today
- Everyone on Earth about 2.4 billion about 8.2 billion
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