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In your 60 years you’ve been around for…

  • 13 Prime Ministers
  • 2 monarchs
  • the first Moon landing
  • 15 World Cups
  • +4.8 billion people on Earth

More 1966 discoveries are being added

We're filling in 1966 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…

  • 3 The Moon landing 1969
  • 5 The first email 1971
  • 13 The Sony Walkman 1979
  • 23 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
  • 28 The PlayStation 1994
  • 32 Google was founded 1998

A gentle reality check

Things that are younger than you

  • 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
  • 1972 Pong, the arcade hit
  • 1973 The first mobile phone call
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1966 vs today

A few things have changed since you arrived

A few things 1966 Today
  • Everyone on Earth about 3.4 billion about 8.2 billion

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