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Things that are younger than you

66 famous things arrived after you did. Don't panic — it's affectionate.

  1. 1928

    Penicillin discovered

    Alexander Fleming, London

  2. 1928

    Sliced bread went on sale

    Chillicothe Baking Company

  3. 1935

    Radar demonstrated

    the Daventry experiment

  4. 1936

    The BBC Television Service launched

  5. 1945

    The United Nations was founded

  6. 1946

    The first general-purpose electronic computer

    ENIAC

  7. 1948

    The NHS was founded

    5 July 1948

  8. 1953

    Everest was climbed

    Hillary and Tenzing, 29 May

  9. 1953

    The structure of DNA was discovered

  10. 1955

    The first Guinness World Records book

  11. 1957

    Sputnik 1, the first satellite

  12. 1959

    The Mini went on sale

  13. 1961

    The first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin

  14. 1963

    Doctor Who first aired

    23 November 1963

  15. 1967

    The first cash machine

    Barclays, Enfield, June 1967

  16. 1969

    Colour TV arrived on BBC1

  17. 1969

    Concorde's first flight

    March 1969, Bristol

  18. 1969

    The Moon landing

    Apollo 11, July 1969

  19. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  20. 1971

    The first email

  21. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  22. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  23. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  24. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  25. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  26. 1976

    Apple was founded

  27. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  28. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  29. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  30. 1981

    The IBM PC

  31. 1982

    The compact disc

  32. 1984

    Tetris was created

  33. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  34. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  35. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  36. 1989

    The Game Boy

  37. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  38. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  39. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  40. 1991

    The first website went online

  41. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  42. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  43. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  44. 1995

    eBay was founded

  45. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  46. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  47. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  48. 1998

    Google was founded

  49. 1999

    The euro launched

  50. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  51. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  52. 2001

    The iPod

  53. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  54. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  55. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  56. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  57. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  58. 2007

    The iPhone

  59. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  60. 2008

    Spotify launched

  61. 2010

    Instagram

  62. 2010

    The iPad

  63. 2012

    The London Olympics

  64. 2017

    TikTok went global

  65. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  66. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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