▸ the year you arrived
1989
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You will be 37 this year — a child of the '80s.
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Your generation
Millennial
1989 belonged to
Bobby Brown
5 year-end chart hits
Top 10 of 1989
The world you were born into
Top AlbumsThe B-52's — Cosmic Thing
Tom Petty — Full Moon Fever
Janet Jackson — Rhythm Nation 1814
At the MoviesBatman
Dead Poets Society
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
On TVSeinfeld pilot
The Simpsons series premiere
Saved by the Bell
In the HeadlinesThe Berlin Wall falls
Game Boy launches
World Wide Web proposed by Tim Berners-Lee
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