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Things that are younger than you

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

  1. 2000

    Big Brother came to the UK

  2. 2001

    The iPod

  3. 2001

    Wikipedia launched

  4. 2003

    The human genome was mapped

  5. 2004

    Facebook was founded

  6. 2005

    YouTube was founded

  7. 2006

    Twitter was founded

  8. 2007

    The iPhone

  9. 2007

    The smoking ban in England

    1 July 2007

  10. 2008

    Spotify launched

  11. 2010

    Instagram

  12. 2010

    The iPad

  13. 2012

    The London Olympics

  14. 2017

    TikTok went global

  15. 2020

    The UK left the EU

    31 January 2020

  16. 2022

    ChatGPT arrived

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