Your time capsule is ready
In your 67 years you’ve been around for…
- 15 Prime Ministers
- 2 monarchs
- the first Moon landing
- 17 World Cups
- +5.2 billion people on Earth
More 1959 discoveries are being added
We're filling in 1959 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…
- 10 The Moon landing 1969
- 12 The first email 1971
- 20 The Sony Walkman 1979
- 30 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
- 35 The PlayStation 1994
- 39 Google was founded 1998
A gentle reality check
Things that are younger than you
- 1961 The first human in space
- 1963 Doctor Who first aired
- 1967 The first cash machine
- 1969 The Moon landing
- 1969 Concorde's first flight
- 1969 Colour TV arrived on BBC1
- 1971 Decimal currency in the UK
- 1971 The first email
1959 vs today
A few things have changed since you arrived
A few things 1959 Today
- Everyone on Earth about 3.0 billion about 8.2 billion
Indicative sample data — being verified and expanded.
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Compare 1959 with 1998 →
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