You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without The Sound of Music.
In November 2010, Cailey Hall wrote about the magic that makes the movie resonate decades after its release.
Around the time you were born, the Soviet Union launched Luna 9, the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the moon.
In October 2010, Jared Keller wrote about the Soviet moon lander.
You were born in January of 1966. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 3 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Mervyn Cadwallader wrote about the mores and mishaps that increasingly afflicted love and marriage among young Americans.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Rock 'n' Roll High School was released in 1979.
Around your 18th birthday, NASA launched its 10th Space Shuttle mission.
In July 2011, Alan Taylor published a retrospective photo essay on Space Shuttles.
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At 23 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 websites.
In February 2015, Julie Beck wrote about what is lost when websites change or disappear.
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In 2004, J.J. Abrams, who was born the same year as you, began directing the TV series Lost, which won him two Emmy Awards over its six-year run.
In April 2015, David Sims wrote about the use of nostalgia in Abrams's films.
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When you turned 44, 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 59, the World Bank predicts that the U.S. dollar will lose its global dominance.
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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