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You: 1996

Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 1997

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    26 June 1997

  2. 1998

    Google was founded

  3. 1999

    The euro launched

  4. 1999

    The Matrix was released

  5. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  6. 2001

    The iPod

  7. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  8. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  9. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  10. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  11. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  12. 2007

    The iPhone

  13. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  14. 2008

    Spotify launched

  15. 2010

    Instagram

  16. 2010

    The iPad

  17. 2012

    The London Olympics

  18. 2017

    TikTok went global

  19. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  20. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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