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Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1957

    Sputnik 1, the first satellite

  2. 1959

    The Mini went on sale

  3. 1961

    The first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin

  4. 1963

    Doctor Who first aired

    23 November 1963

  5. 1967

    The first cash machine

    Barclays, Enfield, June 1967

  6. 1969

    Colour TV arrived on BBC1

  7. 1969

    Concorde's first flight

    March 1969, Bristol

  8. 1969

    The Moon landing

    Apollo 11, July 1969

  9. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  10. 1971

    The first email

  11. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  12. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  13. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  14. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  15. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  16. 1976

    Apple was founded

  17. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  18. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  19. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  20. 1981

    The IBM PC

  21. 1982

    The compact disc

  22. 1984

    Tetris was created

  23. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  24. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  25. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  26. 1989

    The Game Boy

  27. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  28. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  29. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  30. 1991

    The first website went online

  31. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  32. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  33. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  34. 1995

    eBay was founded

  35. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  36. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  37. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  38. 1998

    Google was founded

  39. 1999

    The euro launched

  40. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  41. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  42. 2001

    The iPod

  43. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  44. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  45. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  46. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  47. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  48. 2007

    The iPhone

  49. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  50. 2008

    Spotify launched

  51. 2010

    Instagram

  52. 2010

    The iPad

  53. 2012

    The London Olympics

  54. 2017

    TikTok went global

  55. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  56. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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