You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Wikipedia.
In August 2015, Joe Pinsker wrote about the site's paid editors.
Around the time you were born, the UN Security Council agreed to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden.
In May 2011, Tim Fernholz and Jim Tankersley wrote about the price of bringing bin Laden to justice.
You were born in January of 2002. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Charles C. Mann wrote about the history of North America, and its advanced, prosperous civilizations, before the arrival of Columbus.
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At 3 years old, you began learning about the world just as we were reaching the outer solar system.
With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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When you turned 6, you witnessed the election of Barack Obama.
The legacy of the first African American couple in the White House would be a major focus of The Atlantic.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after turn-by-turn cellphone navigation.
In September 2012, Alexis C. Madrigal wrote about the technology behind Google's detailed directions.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Dope was released in 2015.
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In 2016, Gaten Matarazzo, who was born the same year as you, won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble as part of the cast of the Netflix original series Stranger Things.
In July 2016, Lenika Cruz wrote about where Stranger Things lost its magic.
By the time you turn 23, experts at the Pew Research Center warn that there will be no "surveillance-free spaces."
In December 2014, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about how the way we see privacy will change over the next decade.
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