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You: 1988

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1989

    The Game Boy

  2. 1989

    The World Wide Web was invented

    Tim Berners-Lee, CERN

  3. 1990

    The Hubble Space Telescope launched

  4. 1991

    Sonic the Hedgehog

  5. 1991

    The first website went online

  6. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  7. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  8. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  9. 1995

    eBay was founded

  10. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  11. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  12. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  13. 1998

    Google was founded

  14. 1999

    The euro launched

  15. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  16. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  17. 2001

    The iPod

  18. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  19. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  20. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  21. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  22. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  23. 2007

    The iPhone

  24. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  25. 2008

    Spotify launched

  26. 2010

    Instagram

  27. 2010

    The iPad

  28. 2012

    The London Olympics

  29. 2017

    TikTok went global

  30. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  31. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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