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Born in 1998? Here's what you're older than.

If you were born in 1998, you turn 28 in 2026, and you're Gen Z. You're older than 106 things on our timeline, including the first emoji set, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Sims.

You're older than…

Everything on this list came out, opened or happened after 1998 ended.

• 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
• Wikipedia 25 years old '01 1 15
• Shrek 25 years old '01 5 18
• The iPod 24 years old '01 10 23
• Windows XP 24 years old '01 10 25
• Monsters, Inc. 24 years old '01 11 2
• The first Harry Potter movie 24 years old '01 11 16
• The Lord of the Rings movies 24 years old '01 12 19
• The Pumpkin Spice Latte about 23 years old '03
• Finding Nemo 23 years old '03 5 30
• Facebook 22 years old '04 2 4
• Mean Girls 22 years old '04 4 30
• YouTube 21 years old '05 2 14
• The Office (US) 21 years old '05 3 24
• High School Musical 20 years old '06 1 20
• Twitter 20 years old '06 7 15
• Pluto's demotion 20 years ago '06 8 24
• Roblox 20 years old '06 9 1
• The Wii 19 years old '06 11 19
• The iPhone 19 years old '07 6 29

See all 106 on the timeline

You were born closer to these than to today

• Pong's release (1972) details
• The invention of the Rubik's Cube (1974) details
• Microsoft's founding (1975) details

Same age as you

These also arrived in 1998.

• Google 28 years old '98 9 4
• The Furby 27 years old '98 10 2

1998 by the numbers

• The world had about 6.0 billion people in 1998. Today it's about 8.3 billion.
• People born in 1998 are older than about 45% of everyone alive.
• 1998 is roughly halfway between 1970 and today.
• If you were born in 1998, you've been alive for roughly 10,131 to 10,495 days.