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Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1935

    Radar demonstrated

    the Daventry experiment

  2. 1936

    The BBC Television Service launched

  3. 1945

    The United Nations was founded

  4. 1946

    The first general-purpose electronic computer

    ENIAC

  5. 1948

    The NHS was founded

    5 July 1948

  6. 1953

    Everest was climbed

    Hillary and Tenzing, 29 May

  7. 1953

    The structure of DNA was discovered

  8. 1955

    The first Guinness World Records book

  9. 1957

    Sputnik 1, the first satellite

  10. 1959

    The Mini went on sale

  11. 1961

    The first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin

  12. 1963

    Doctor Who first aired

    23 November 1963

  13. 1967

    The first cash machine

    Barclays, Enfield, June 1967

  14. 1969

    Colour TV arrived on BBC1

  15. 1969

    Concorde's first flight

    March 1969, Bristol

  16. 1969

    The Moon landing

    Apollo 11, July 1969

  17. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  18. 1971

    The first email

  19. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  20. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  21. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  22. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  23. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  24. 1976

    Apple was founded

  25. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  26. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  27. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  28. 1981

    The IBM PC

  29. 1982

    The compact disc

  30. 1984

    Tetris was created

  31. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  32. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  33. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  34. 1989

    The Game Boy

  35. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  36. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  37. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  38. 1991

    The first website went online

  39. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  40. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  41. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  42. 1995

    eBay was founded

  43. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  44. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  45. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  46. 1998

    Google was founded

  47. 1999

    The euro launched

  48. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  49. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  50. 2001

    The iPod

  51. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  52. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  53. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  54. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  55. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  56. 2007

    The iPhone

  57. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  58. 2008

    Spotify launched

  59. 2010

    Instagram

  60. 2010

    The iPad

  61. 2012

    The London Olympics

  62. 2017

    TikTok went global

  63. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  64. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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