1 Microwave Amazon / Panasonic The microwave oven didn’t make waves until 1946. That means Betty was already 20 years old when the kitchen invention—now a necessary staple—was introduced.

2 Electric razor Amazon / Phillips Up until 1931, razors only came in the non-electric variety. Guess that means buzzcuts didn’t exist either back when Betty was a teenager.

3 Trampoline Amazon / Stamina Betty—known for her sitcom portrayal of Rose, the super gullible widow on The Golden Girls —was just 12 years old when the first trampoline was invented. The first modern tramp was created by two men—one a gymnast and diver, the other exclusively a floor gymnast.

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4 Ballpoint pen Amazon / Pilot Um, what?! Betty White is actually older than a pen. Not all pens, collectively. Only the ballpoint pen. But still, it’s hard to image that up until she was eight years old, writing instruments didn’t have ball points. Imagine what her elementary school signature must have looked like!

5 Instant Coffee Amazon / Trader Joe's / Starbucks Coffee seems like a tale-as-old-as-time solution to exhaustion but it’s actually a surprisingly recent invention, coming to fruition in 1938. At least—instant coffee, that is. Coffee was originally patented in the 1800s, but it wasn’t until ’38 that the process of making coffee was reevaluated and refined.

6 Garage Flickr / Heschong C.G. Johnson invented the electric garage door opener in 1926 when Betty White was just four years old. Of course, they didn’t gain more mainstream popularity until after World War II, so it’s possible Betty didn’t have a garage opener in her family until she was a teen.

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7 Traffic Signal Flickr / Garrett It’s nearly impossible to imagine what the world was like before traffic signals governed the streets and kept peoples’ driving in check. But believe it or not, when Betty was born in ’22, these streets were sans red-yellow-and-green traffic lights for a full year.

8 Automatic Watches Amazon / Winner When Betty was born, her parents weren’t able to consult their automatic watches for the time of birth. Mainly because they didn’t exist yet. Automatic watches didn’t hit the scene until 1923.

9 Instant Camera Amazon / Polaroid Cameras were of course around when Betty White was born, but it wasn’t until she was one year old that instant cameras—that is, cameras with self-developing film that debuted the photo moments after it was taken—became all the rage.

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10 Jukeboxes Wenn One of the first “selective jukeboxes”—AKA a jukebox that automatically shifted records—made its way onto the music scene in 1927. Betty was five years old.

11 Bread Slicer Amazon / Housewise First sold in 1928, bread slicers were considered a modern luxury at the time. Bread slicers changed the baking game and even led to the coining of the ever-popular idiom “it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.” It’s cray to think that Betty was alive before that pun was even conceived!

12 Garbage Disposal Flickr / Dean Hochman While the garbage disposal wasn’t patented until 1935, waste disposal units were officially invented in ’27, when Betty was five. That means her first house likely didn’t have a garbage disposal. We wonder if she has one now?!

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13 Sunglasses Amazon / Ray Ban Learning that Betty White is older than sunglasses puts life into unparalleled perspective. We will never take sunnies for granted ever again. Sunglasses were initially popular amongst movie stars in the early 1920s. We wonder how old Betty was the first time she got her hands on a pair.

14 Frozen Food Flickr / Daniel Loines It was 1929 when people began to realize that the natural freezing of foods was also a method for preserving foods. So what – does this mean Betty White is also older than freezers?! (The first home freezer was invented in 1913.)