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You: 1991

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1992

    The first text message

    December 1992

  2. 1994

    The Channel Tunnel opened

    6 May 1994

  3. 1994

    The PlayStation

    Japan, December 1994

  4. 1995

    eBay was founded

  5. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  6. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  7. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  8. 1998

    Google was founded

  9. 1999

    The euro launched

  10. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  11. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  12. 2001

    The iPod

  13. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  14. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  15. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  16. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  17. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  18. 2007

    The iPhone

  19. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  20. 2008

    Spotify launched

  21. 2010

    Instagram

  22. 2010

    The iPad

  23. 2012

    The London Olympics

  24. 2017

    TikTok went global

  25. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  26. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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