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Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1961

    The first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin

  2. 1963

    Doctor Who first aired

    23 November 1963

  3. 1967

    The first cash machine

    Barclays, Enfield, June 1967

  4. 1969

    Colour TV arrived on BBC1

  5. 1969

    Concorde's first flight

    March 1969, Bristol

  6. 1969

    The Moon landing

    Apollo 11, July 1969

  7. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  8. 1971

    The first email

  9. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  10. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  11. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  12. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  13. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  14. 1976

    Apple was founded

  15. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  16. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  17. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  18. 1981

    The IBM PC

  19. 1982

    The compact disc

  20. 1984

    Tetris was created

  21. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  22. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  23. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  24. 1989

    The Game Boy

  25. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  26. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  27. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  28. 1991

    The first website went online

  29. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  30. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  31. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  32. 1995

    eBay was founded

  33. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  34. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  35. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  36. 1998

    Google was founded

  37. 1999

    The euro launched

  38. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  39. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  40. 2001

    The iPod

  41. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  42. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  43. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  44. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  45. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  46. 2007

    The iPhone

  47. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  48. 2008

    Spotify launched

  49. 2010

    Instagram

  50. 2010

    The iPad

  51. 2012

    The London Olympics

  52. 2017

    TikTok went global

  53. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  54. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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