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Born in 1984? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 1984, you turn 42 in 2026, and you're a Millennial. You're older than 180 things on our timeline, including Back to the Future, Super Mario Bros. and the NES.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 1984 ended.

• Back to the Future 41 years old '85 7 3
• Super Mario Bros. 41 years old '85 9 13
• The NES 40 years old '85 10 18
• The Game Boy 37 years old '89 4 21
• The Simpsons 36 years old '89 12 17
• Home Alone 35 years old '90 11 16
• The World Wide Web 35 years old '91 8 6
• The first text message 33 years ago '92 12 3
• Beanie Babies about 33 years old '93
• Jurassic Park 33 years old '93 6 11
• Hocus Pocus 33 years old '93 7 16
• The Lion King 32 years old '94 6 15
• Friends 32 years old '94 9 22
• The PlayStation 31 years old '94 12 3
• Amazon 31 years old '95 7 16
• Windows 95 31 years old '95 8 24
• Toy Story 30 years old '95 11 22
• Pokémon 30 years old '96 2 27
• The Tamagotchi 29 years old '96 11 23
• Wi-Fi about 29 years old '97
• Harry Potter 29 years old '97 6 26
• Netflix 29 years old '97 8 29
• Titanic (the movie) 28 years old '97 12 19
• Google 28 years old '98 9 4

See all 180 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• Disneyland's opening (1955) details
• The LEGO brick patent (1958) details
• The invention of pickleball (1965) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 1984.

• Tetris 42 years old '84 6 6
• The Macintosh 42 years old '84 1 24
• Transformers about 42 years old '84
• Ghostbusters 42 years old '84 6 8

1984 by the numbers

• The world had about 4.8 billion people in 1984. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 1984 are older than about 65% of everyone alive.
• 1984 is roughly halfway between 1942 and today.
• If you were born in 1984, you've been alive for roughly 15,244 to 15,609 days.