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Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1945

    The United Nations was founded

  2. 1946

    The first general-purpose electronic computer

    ENIAC

  3. 1948

    The NHS was founded

    5 July 1948

  4. 1953

    Everest was climbed

    Hillary and Tenzing, 29 May

  5. 1953

    The structure of DNA was discovered

  6. 1955

    The first Guinness World Records book

  7. 1957

    Sputnik 1, the first satellite

  8. 1959

    The Mini went on sale

  9. 1961

    The first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin

  10. 1963

    Doctor Who first aired

    23 November 1963

  11. 1967

    The first cash machine

    Barclays, Enfield, June 1967

  12. 1969

    Colour TV arrived on BBC1

  13. 1969

    Concorde's first flight

    March 1969, Bristol

  14. 1969

    The Moon landing

    Apollo 11, July 1969

  15. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  16. 1971

    The first email

  17. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  18. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  19. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  20. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  21. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  22. 1976

    Apple was founded

  23. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  24. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  25. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  26. 1981

    The IBM PC

  27. 1982

    The compact disc

  28. 1984

    Tetris was created

  29. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  30. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  31. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  32. 1989

    The Game Boy

  33. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  34. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  35. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  36. 1991

    The first website went online

  37. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  38. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  39. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  40. 1995

    eBay was founded

  41. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  42. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  43. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  44. 1998

    Google was founded

  45. 1999

    The euro launched

  46. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  47. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  48. 2001

    The iPod

  49. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  50. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  51. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  52. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  53. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  54. 2007

    The iPhone

  55. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  56. 2008

    Spotify launched

  57. 2010

    Instagram

  58. 2010

    The iPad

  59. 2012

    The London Olympics

  60. 2017

    TikTok went global

  61. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  62. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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