You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without CD players.
In October 2012, Megan Garber wrote about the CD player turning 30 years old.
Around the time you were born, a deadly ambush by the Liberation Tigers started the Sri Lankan Civil War.
In April 2011, Armin Rosen wrote an overview of war crimes from the Sri Lankan civil war.
You were born in July of 1983. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 4 times as old as you.
The year you were born, James Fallows wrote about the economic, demographic, and social effects of U.S. immigration.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
The Craft was released in 1996.
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In 1998, Mila Kunis, who was born the same year as you, began starring in the sitcom That '70s Show.
In February 2015, Christopher Orr wrote a review of the disastrous film Jupiter Ascending, which starred Mila Kunis.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after the euro.
In December 2011, Jim Tankersley wrote about how the euro's failure could cause another American recession.
Around your 18th birthday, the world's first self-contained artificial heart was implanted in Robert Tools.
In October 2010, Alexis Madrigal wrote about the first ever artificial heart, used to keep a patient alive in 1969 until a donor heart was available.
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At 18 years old, you were part of the generation most shaped by 9/11.
The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
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When you turned 27, you witnessed the revolutionary fervor that transformed the Arab world in 2010, a movement led by your generation.
When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, he ignited a tinderbox of protests that continue to roil the Middle East, and kindled the beginnings of democracy in Tunisia.
By the time you turn 48, the collective GDP of the four leading developing countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) is likely to match that of today's leading Western nations.
In February 2012, Charles A. Kupchan wrote about the world's emerging economies, and how the world will look by 2050.
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