Your birth year
2006
iPad
20102010s
You're 4 years older than iPad
It's from 2010, when you were 4.
- Maker
- Apple
- Type
- Tablet computer
- Debuted
- 2010
- Note
- Mocked as a 'big iPhone' — sold 300,000 on day one
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About
As of 2026, it's 16 years old.
The original iPad landed in 2010 when Steve Jobs sat in a leather armchair onstage and held up a device the internet immediately dubbed 'just a big iPhone.' The name also drew a wave of jokes that aged poorly the moment it sold 300,000 units on launch day.
It created the modern tablet category almost single-handedly, becoming the babysitter, the cookbook holder, the airplane savior, and the device every restaurant now hands you instead of a menu.
Sleek, glassy, and surprisingly hard to justify yet impossible to resist, the first iPad turned 'I don't need one of those' into 'how did I live without it.'
