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You: 1994

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1995

    eBay was founded

  2. 1995

    Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film

  3. 1996

    Dolly the sheep was cloned

    the Roslin Institute

  4. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  5. 1998

    Google was founded

  6. 1999

    The euro launched

  7. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  8. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  9. 2001

    The iPod

  10. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  11. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  12. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  13. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  14. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  15. 2007

    The iPhone

  16. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  17. 2008

    Spotify launched

  18. 2010

    Instagram

  19. 2010

    The iPad

  20. 2012

    The London Olympics

  21. 2017

    TikTok went global

  22. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  23. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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