You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In January 2011, Sharmin T.M. Kent wrote about Oprah launching her own television network, Oxygen.
You were born in January of 1987. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 4 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Bruno Bettelheim wrote about the importance of play to the development of children.
Around the time you were born, the animated Simpsons family first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
In August 2014, David Sims wrote about the greatest line every Simpsons character ever said.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Love & Basketball was released in 2000.
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At 14 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.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after American Idol.
In May 2015, Spencer Kornhaber wrote about how the show changed the music industry over time.
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In 2004, Maria Sharapova, who was born the same year as you, won the women's tennis title at Wimbledon.
In October 2014, Allen McDuffee wrote about sexism in tennis.
Around your 18th birthday, the parliament in Spain legalized marriage between same-sex couples.
In June 2013, Olga Khazan wrote about Spain being the most accepting country in the world when it comes to homosexuality.
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When you turned 23, 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 63, economist Jim O'Neill predicts that drug-resistant infections will kill one person every three seconds.
But it's possible to prevent that. In May 2016, Ed Yong wrote about the recommended steps to avert a post-antibiotic apocalypse.
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