What things or events are you older than?

I'm older then Martin Luther King Jr being killed.

Martin Luther King Jr Last Speech

The average price of a house was $24,700

The average price of a new car was $2,822

Gasoline cost 34 cents a gallon

Gas tank behind the plate and look at the oil cans

They even had Coin Operated gas pumps

A loaf of bread cost 55 cents.
A gallon of milk: $1.05 per gallon
Eggs: 53 cents per dozen
Swanson TV dinner: 65 cents each
Kraft Deluxe Dinner 39 cents
Beef Chuck Roast 49 cents per pound

1968 KFC Prices

Food Shopping when I was a kid

I bet many didn't know Kohl's started out as a grocery store

Famous people born the same year:
Lisa Marie Presley February 1st
Celine Dion March 30th
Will Smith September 25th
Hugh Jackman October 12th

I am older than:
1968 Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, NASA’s Apollo 7 Mission Launches, The Beatles “White Album” Released, The ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.A.

That's right, they have been here for a long time

First Wisconsin Bank introduces the first Tyme Machine to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1970(AKA ATM)

1969 Laser printer
1971 Uno (card game), Personal computer, Floppy disk

What the first deck looked like

1972 Video game console, Global Positioning System (AKA GPS)
1973 Mobile phone (AKA 1st Cellphone), Catalytic Converter, Personal watercraft (AKA The Jet ski)
1975 Digital camera
1978 Microwaveable Popcorn
1981 Paintball
1982 Digital Audio Compact Disc (AKA CD's)

Like at the size difference. I still rather have the record over the CD though.

The first CD player

1988 Nicotine patch

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

I'm not trying to crash your bubble, but.

Would you be shocked if I told you that the internet and cellphone are way older then you think.

The answer below can be found at www.britannica.com

First Internet, long-distance networking between computers was first accomplished in a 1969 experiment by two research teams at UCLA and Stanford.

And

Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone and made the first cell phone call. He is widely regarded as the father of the cellular phone.

DDonde · 31-35, M

The internet, or mass adoption of the internet. Also technically the Russian Federation.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

In the year I was born:
A Postage Stamp Was 0.10
Bread Was 0.28
Milk Was $1.40
Gas Was 0.57
A Car Was $3,800.00
Income Was $9,861.00
A House Was $51,865.00

Source: https://superseventies.tripod.com/70s/id52.html

And I am just about a month older than the Typhoon Nina–Banqiao dam failure, catastrophic dam failure in August 1975 in western Henan province, China, caused by a typhoon (tropical cyclone). The ensuing floods caused more than 150,000 casualties, making it one of the deadliest typhoon disasters in history.