You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without universal credit cards.
In April 2015, Joe Pinsker wrote about how people misuse credit cards without giving much thought to the consequences.
Around the time you were born, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
This amendment set term limits to the Office of the President. In May 2014, Norm Ornstein argued that term limits should also be imposed on the Supreme Court.
You were born in January of 1951. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Bertrand Russell considered three possible futures for the human race, as the Cold War set in.
Around your 18th birthday, the Palestinian National Council appointed Yasser Arafat chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Elizabeth Shelburne interviewed David Samuels in the September 2005 issue about Arafat's legacy.
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At 18 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon.
Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
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In 1977, Cheryl Ladd, who was born the same year as you, began starring in the television series Charlie's Angels.
In November 2015, Spencer Kornhaber wrote about the 2000 film reboot of Charlie's Angels.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Macintosh computers.
In June 2012, Megan Garber wrote about how Apple computers, once thought to be virus-immune, can now get PC viruses.
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When you turned 56, you watched humankind reach 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.
By the time you turn 70, scientists estimate it will no longer be possible to keep global temperatures from rising at least 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In December 2015, Robinson Meyer wrote about why scientists had accepted this fact.
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