You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Sesame Street.
In June 2015, Alia Wong wrote about the educational benefits of the beloved show.
You were born in December of 1970. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 3 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Diane Schulder wrote about how the law deals more harshly with women than with men.
Around the time you were born, the Environmental Protection Agency opened as a way to monitor environmental impacts.
In December 2010, Alexis C. Madrigal wrote a pictoral retrospective of Nixon's rationale for creating the EPA.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Risky Business was released in 1983.
Around your 18th birthday, George H.W. Bush was elected the 41st president of the United States.
In July 2014, Shirley Li wrote about George W. Bush's upcoming biography of his father, George H.W. Bush.
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At 18 years old, you saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
“It was thought that all borders between men had similarly disintegrated, and we were all destined to be free and empowered individuals in a global meeting place,” wrote Robert Kaplan 20 years later.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after graphical web browsers.
In September 2010, Niraj Chokshi noted how little the browser interface had changed since 1993.
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In 1998, Matt Damon, who was born the same year as you, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the movie Good Will Hunting with his childhood friend Ben Affleck.
In October 2012, Noah Bittell wrote about the political messages in Damon and Affleck's films, from Good Will Hunting to The Promised Land and Argo.
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When you turned 40, you saw the rise of the Arab Spring.
People across the world rediscovered the power and peril of revolutions, as Laura Kasinof found in Yemen.
By the time you turn 61, 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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