Your time capsule is ready
In your 26 years you’ve been around for…
- 8 Prime Ministers
- 2 monarchs
- 7 World Cups
- +2.0 billion people on Earth
More 2000 discoveries are being added
We're filling in 2000 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…
- 1 Wikipedia launched 2001
- 4 Facebook was founded 2004
- 5 YouTube was founded 2005
- 7 The iPhone 2007
- 8 Spotify launched 2008
- 10 Instagram 2010
A gentle reality check
Things that are younger than you
- 2001 Wikipedia launched
- 2001 The iPod
- 2003 The human genome was mapped
- 2004 Facebook was founded
- 2005 YouTube was founded
- 2006 Twitter was founded
- 2007 The iPhone
- 2007 The smoking ban in England
2000 vs today
A few things have changed since you arrived
A few things 2000 Today
- Everyone on Earth about 6.2 billion about 8.2 billion
Indicative sample data — being verified and expanded.
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Compare 2000 with 1998 →
Two birth years, side by side. Try it with family.