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You: 1973

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1975

    Home video recorders

    Betamax

  2. 1975

    Jaws invented the summer blockbuster

  3. 1975

    Microsoft was founded

  4. 1976

    Apple was founded

  5. 1977

    Star Wars was released

  6. 1979

    The Sony Walkman

  7. 1981

    The Humber Bridge opened

    the longest span in the world

  8. 1981

    The IBM PC

  9. 1982

    The compact disc

  10. 1984

    Tetris was created

  11. 1985

    Live Aid

    13 July 1985, Wembley

  12. 1985

    Mobile phones reached the UK

    Vodafone and Cellnet

  13. 1987

    The Simpsons first appeared

    on Tracey Ullman

  14. 1989

    The Game Boy

  15. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  16. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  17. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  18. 1991

    The first website went online

  19. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  20. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  21. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  22. 1995

    eBay was founded

  23. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  24. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  25. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  26. 1998

    Google was founded

  27. 1999

    The euro launched

  28. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  29. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  30. 2001

    The iPod

  31. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  32. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  33. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  34. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  35. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  36. 2007

    The iPhone

  37. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  38. 2008

    Spotify launched

  39. 2010

    Instagram

  40. 2010

    The iPad

  41. 2012

    The London Olympics

  42. 2017

    TikTok went global

  43. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  44. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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