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Born in 1988? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 1988, you turn 38 in 2026, and you're a Millennial. You're older than 168 things on our timeline, including the Game Boy, The Simpsons and Home Alone.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 1988 ended.

• 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
• The Furby 27 years old '98 10 2
• The first emoji about 27 years old '99
• SpongeBob SquarePants 27 years old '99 5 1

See all 168 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• The LEGO brick patent (1958) details
• The invention of pickleball (1965) details
• The Big Mac going nationwide (1968) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 1988.

• Lunchables about 38 years old '88

1988 by the numbers

• The world had about 5.2 billion people in 1988. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 1988 are older than about 59% of everyone alive.
• 1988 is roughly halfway between 1950 and today.
• If you were born in 1988, you've been alive for roughly 13,783 to 14,148 days.