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The feel-old timeline
All 370 dates we use, oldest to newest. Tap any of them to see exactly how old it is.
1840s
- The fax machine 183 years old
- The telegraph 182 years ago
1860s
- The London Underground 163 years old
- The end of the US Civil War 161 years ago
- The transcontinental railroad 157 years old
1870s
- Blue jeans 153 years old
- The Kentucky Derby 151 years ago
- Heinz ketchup about 150 years old
- The telephone 150 years ago
- Wimbledon 149 years ago
- Edison's light bulb 146 years old
1880s
- The Brooklyn Bridge 143 years old
- Dr Pepper about 141 years old
- The car 140 years old
- Coca-Cola 140 years old
- The Statue of Liberty 139 years old
- The Eiffel Tower 137 years old
- Nintendo 137 years old
1890s
- Basketball 134 years old
- Pepsi about 133 years old
- The Ferris wheel 133 years old
- X-rays 130 years old
- The first public movie screening 130 years ago
- The first modern Olympics 130 years ago
- Jell-O about 129 years old
1900s
- The Hershey bar about 126 years old
- The teddy bear about 124 years old
- Crayola crayons about 123 years old
- Harley-Davidson about 123 years old
- The Tour de France 123 years ago
- The World Series 122 years ago
- The first airplane flight 122 years ago
- The New York City subway 121 years old
- The Popsicle about 121 years old
- The Times Square ball drop 118 years ago
- The Model T 117 years old
1910s
- The Oreo 114 years old
- The sinking of the Titanic 114 years ago
- The crossword puzzle 112 years old
- The Panama Canal 112 years old
- The end of World War I 107 years ago
1920s
- The Band-Aid about 106 years old
- Women's right to vote in the US 106 years old
- The NFL 106 years old
- The first commercial radio broadcast 105 years ago
- The Hollywood sign 103 years old
- Television 100 years old
- Route 66 99 years old
- The first talking movie 98 years old
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups about 98 years old
- Sliced bread 98 years old
- Penicillin about 98 years old
- Mickey Mouse 97 years old
- The first Academy Awards 97 years ago
1930s
- Snickers about 96 years old
- Pluto's discovery 96 years ago
- Twinkies 96 years old
- The first FIFA World Cup 96 years ago
- The Empire State Building 95 years old
- The Kit Kat about 91 years old
- The Hoover Dam 90 years old
- Monopoly 90 years old
- The Golden Gate Bridge 89 years old
- Spam 89 years old
- Snow White 88 years old
- The chocolate chip cookie about 88 years old
- Superman 88 years old
- March Madness 87 years ago
- The Wizard of Oz 87 years old
1940s
- Mountain Dew about 86 years old
- McDonald's 86 years old
- M&M's 85 years old
- Mount Rushmore 84 years old
- IKEA about 83 years old
- The end of World War II 81 years ago
- The Slinky 80 years old
- The NBA 80 years old
- The first photo of Earth from space 79 years ago
- Scrabble about 78 years old
- Cheetos about 78 years old
- The vinyl LP 78 years old
- In-N-Out 77 years old
1950s
- The credit card 76 years old
- Dunkin' 76 years old
- KFC 74 years old
- The DNA double helix 73 years old
- Queen Elizabeth II's coronation 73 years ago
- Burger King 73 years old
- The polio vaccine 71 years old
- Disneyland 71 years old
- Play-Doh about 70 years old
- The US Interstate system 70 years old
- The Frisbee about 69 years old
- Bubble wrap about 69 years old
- Sputnik 68 years old
- The Hula Hoop about 68 years old
- Pizza Hut about 68 years old
- The LEGO brick 68 years old
- Instant ramen 68 years old
- Barbie 67 years old
- Hawaii statehood 67 years ago
1960s
- The 50-star US flag 66 years old
- Etch A Sketch 66 years old
- Domino's 65 years old
- Sprite about 65 years old
- The first human in space 65 years ago
- Taco Bell 64 years old
- The Space Needle 64 years old
- Target 64 years old
- Walmart 64 years old
- Fantasy football about 63 years old
- ZIP codes 63 years old
- The cassette tape 63 years old
- The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show 62 years ago
- Nutella 62 years old
- Pop-Tarts 62 years old
- Gatorade about 61 years old
- Pickleball about 61 years old
- Singapore 61 years old
- Subway 61 years old
- The Gateway Arch 60 years old
- Twister about 60 years old
- Doritos about 60 years old
- Star Trek 60 years old
- The countertop microwave about 59 years old
- The first Super Bowl 59 years ago
- The ATM 59 years old
- Chick-fil-A 58 years old
- The first heart transplant 58 years ago
- Hot Wheels about 58 years old
- The Big Mac about 58 years old
- Pringles about 58 years old
- The first 911 call 58 years ago
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 58 years old
- The Moon landing 57 years ago
- Woodstock 57 years ago
- Sesame Street 56 years old
- Wendy's 56 years old
1970s
- The first Earth Day 56 years ago
- The first email about 55 years ago
- UNO about 55 years old
- The karaoke machine about 55 years old
- Starbucks 55 years old
- Cup Noodles 55 years old
- Walt Disney World 54 years old
- Snapple about 54 years old
- Pong 53 years old
- The last Moon walk 53 years ago
- The first cell phone call 53 years ago
- The Sydney Opera House 52 years old
- The Rubik's Cube about 52 years old
- Skittles about 52 years old
- Connect Four 52 years old
- The first barcode scan 52 years ago
- The digital camera about 51 years old
- Microsoft 51 years old
- Jaws 51 years old
- Saturday Night Live 50 years old
- Apple 50 years old
- The CN Tower 50 years old
- VHS 50 years old
- Star Wars 49 years old
- The Atari 2600 about 49 years old
- Voyager 1 49 years old
- Ben & Jerry's 48 years old
- The Happy Meal 47 years old
- The Sony Walkman 47 years old
- ESPN 47 years old
- The NBA three-point line 46 years old
1980s
- The Post-it Note 46 years old
- Smallpox eradication 46 years ago
- Pac-Man 46 years old
- CNN 46 years old
- Trivial Pursuit about 45 years old
- The Space Shuttle 45 years old
- MTV 45 years old
- E.T. 44 years old
- Diet Coke 44 years old
- The CD 43 years old
- EPCOT 43 years old
- Thriller 43 years old
- Jenga 43 years old
- Cabbage Patch Kids about 43 years old
- Chicken McNuggets about 43 years old
- Hot Pockets about 43 years old
- Costco 43 years old
- Transformers about 42 years old
- The Macintosh 42 years old
- Tetris 42 years old
- Ghostbusters 42 years old
- New Coke 41 years old
- Back to the Future 41 years old
- Live Aid 41 years ago
- Super Mario Bros. 41 years old
- The NES 40 years old
- Blockbuster 40 years old
- Halley's Comet's last visit 40 years ago
- The Legend of Zelda 40 years old
- Top Gun 40 years old
- Red Bull 39 years old
- Full House 39 years old
- Lunchables about 38 years old
- Polly Pocket about 37 years old
- The Game Boy 37 years old
- Seinfeld 37 years old
- The fall of the Berlin Wall 36 years ago
- The Little Mermaid 36 years old
- The Simpsons 36 years old
1990s
- Namibia 36 years old
- The Hubble Space Telescope 36 years old
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 36 years old
- Reunified Germany 35 years old
- Home Alone 35 years old
- Sonic the Hedgehog 35 years old
- The World Wide Web 35 years old
- Rugrats 35 years old
- The Super Nintendo 35 years old
- Beauty and the Beast 34 years old
- Barney & Friends 34 years old
- The Mall of America 34 years old
- Aladdin 33 years old
- The first text message 33 years ago
- Beanie Babies about 33 years old
- The Czech Republic 33 years old
- Slovakia 33 years old
- Jurassic Park 33 years old
- Chipotle 33 years old
- Hocus Pocus 33 years old
- Power Rangers 33 years old
- The Nightmare Before Christmas 32 years old
- Doom 32 years old
- The QR code about 32 years old
- Yahoo 32 years old
- The Channel Tunnel 32 years old
- The Lion King 32 years old
- Forrest Gump 32 years old
- Friends 32 years old
- Palau 31 years old
- The PlayStation 31 years old
- The Frappuccino about 31 years old
- The X Games 31 years ago
- Amazon 31 years old
- Clueless 31 years old
- Windows 95 31 years old
- eBay 31 years old
- Toy Story 30 years old
- USB 30 years old
- Pokémon 30 years old
- The Nintendo 64 30 years old
- Dolly the sheep 30 years old
- Blue's Clues 30 years old
- The DVD 29 years old
- Space Jam 29 years old
- The Tamagotchi 29 years old
- Scream 29 years old
- Wi-Fi about 29 years old
- Teletubbies 29 years old
- AOL Instant Messenger 29 years old
- Harry Potter 29 years old
- Netflix 29 years old
- Grand Theft Auto 28 years old
- Titanic (the movie) 28 years old
- Google 28 years old
- The Furby 27 years old
- Bluetooth about 27 years old
- The first emoji about 27 years old
- The BlackBerry 27 years old
- The Matrix 27 years old
- SpongeBob SquarePants 27 years old
- Napster 27 years old
2000s
- The Sims 26 years old
- The PlayStation 2 26 years old
- Survivor 26 years old
- Dora the Explorer 26 years old
- The Nokia 3310 26 years old
- Humans living in space full-time 25 years ago
- Wikipedia 25 years old
- Shrek 25 years old
- The Apple Store 25 years old
- The Fast and the Furious 25 years old
- Legally Blonde 25 years old
- The iPod 24 years old
- Windows XP 24 years old
- Monsters, Inc. 24 years old
- The Xbox 24 years old
- The first Harry Potter movie 24 years old
- The Lord of the Rings movies 24 years old
- Crocs about 24 years old
- Euro cash 24 years old
- Timor-Leste 24 years old
- American Idol 24 years old
- The Pumpkin Spice Latte about 23 years old
- The Human Genome Project 23 years old
- The iTunes Store 23 years old
- Finding Nemo 23 years old
- Tesla 23 years old
- Pirates of the Caribbean 23 years old
- Myspace 23 years old
- Skype 23 years old
- Steam 23 years old
- Call of Duty 22 years old
- Elf 22 years old
- Facebook 22 years old
- Gmail 22 years old
- Mean Girls 22 years old
- The Incredibles 21 years old
- The Nintendo DS 21 years old
- World of Warcraft 21 years old
- Google Maps 21 years old
- YouTube 21 years old
- The Office (US) 21 years old
- Grey's Anatomy 21 years old
- Reddit 21 years old
- Guitar Hero 20 years old
- High School Musical 20 years old
- Hannah Montana 20 years old
- Montenegro 20 years old
- Cars 20 years old
- Twitter 20 years old
- Pluto's demotion 20 years ago
- Roblox 20 years old
- The Wii 19 years old
- The iPhone 19 years old
- The Kindle 18 years old
- Breaking Bad 18 years old
- Iron Man 18 years old
- The Dark Knight 18 years old
- Airbnb 18 years old
- Spotify 17 years old
- Twilight (the movie) 17 years old
- Bitcoin 17 years old
- WhatsApp 17 years old
- Minecraft 17 years old
- Angry Birds 16 years old
- Avatar 16 years old
2010s
- Uber about 16 years old
- The Burj Khalifa 16 years old
- The iPad 16 years old
- Instagram 15 years old
- Game of Thrones 15 years old
- Twitch 15 years old
- Snapchat 15 years old
- South Sudan 15 years old
- Siri 14 years old
- The Hunger Games (movie) 14 years old
- The Avengers 14 years old
- The Curiosity rover 14 years old
- Candy Crush Saga 13 years old
- Vine 13 years old
- Frozen 12 years old
- The Ice Bucket Challenge 12 years ago
- Apple Pay 11 years old
- Alexa 11 years old
- The Apple Watch 11 years old
- Discord 11 years old
- A rocket landing itself 10 years ago
- Pokémon Go 10 years old
- Stranger Things 10 years old
- AirPods 9 years old
- The fidget spinner craze about 9 years ago
- The Nintendo Switch 9 years old
- Fortnite 9 years old
- Among Us 8 years old
- TikTok 8 years old
- Bluey 7 years old
- The first photo of a black hole 7 years ago
2020s
- Squid Game 5 years old
- Wordle 4 years old
- The James Webb Space Telescope 4 years old
- ChatGPT 3 years old