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In your 47 years you’ve been around for…

  • 10 Prime Ministers
  • 2 monarchs
  • 12 World Cups
  • +3.8 billion people on Earth

More 1979 discoveries are being added

We're filling in 1979 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 World Wide Web was invented 1989
  • 15 The PlayStation 1994
  • 19 Google was founded 1998
  • 22 Wikipedia launched 2001
  • 25 Facebook was founded 2004
  • 26 YouTube was founded 2005

A gentle reality check

Things that are younger than you

  • 1981 The IBM PC
  • 1981 The Humber Bridge opened
  • 1982 The compact disc
  • 1985 Mobile phones reached the UK
  • 1984 Tetris was created
  • 1985 Live Aid
  • 1987 The Simpsons first appeared
  • 1989 The Game Boy
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1979 vs today

A few things have changed since you arrived

A few things 1979 Today
  • Everyone on Earth about 4.4 billion about 8.2 billion

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