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You: 1969

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1971

    Decimal currency in the UK

    15 February 1971

  2. 1971

    The first email

  3. 1972

    Pong, the arcade hit

    Atari

  4. 1973

    The first mobile phone call

    Motorola, April 1973

  5. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  6. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  7. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  8. 1976

    Apple was founded

  9. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  10. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  11. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  12. 1981

    The IBM PC

  13. 1982

    The compact disc

  14. 1984

    Tetris was created

  15. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  16. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  17. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  18. 1989

    The Game Boy

  19. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  20. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  21. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  22. 1991

    The first website went online

  23. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  24. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  25. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  26. 1995

    eBay was founded

  27. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  28. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  29. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  30. 1998

    Google was founded

  31. 1999

    The euro launched

  32. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  33. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  34. 2001

    The iPod

  35. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  36. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  37. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  38. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  39. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  40. 2007

    The iPhone

  41. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  42. 2008

    Spotify launched

  43. 2010

    Instagram

  44. 2010

    The iPad

  45. 2012

    The London Olympics

  46. 2017

    TikTok went global

  47. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  48. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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