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Born in 1990? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 1990, you turn 36 in 2026, and you're a Millennial. You're older than 157 things on our timeline, including the World Wide Web, the first text message and Beanie Babies.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 1990 ended.

• 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
• The Sims 26 years old '00 2 4
• The PlayStation 2 26 years old '00 3 4
• Humans living in space full-time 25 years ago '00 11 2

See all 157 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 1990.

• Home Alone 35 years old '90 11 16
• Reunified Germany 35 years old '90 10 3
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 36 years old '90 9 10
• The Hubble Space Telescope 36 years old '90 4 24
• Namibia 36 years old '90 3 21

1990 by the numbers

• The world had about 5.4 billion people in 1990. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 1990 are older than about 56% of everyone alive.
• 1990 is roughly halfway between 1954 and today.
• If you were born in 1990, you've been alive for roughly 13,053 to 13,417 days.