I saw this on X and I thought it'd be fun for stackers.
Be warned: If the first thing you do is either invent, encourage the invention, or wait until 2009 to acquire bitcoin, you're immediately teleported back to 2025 and your existing bitcoin stack is gone. Time doesn't like predictability, sorry.
I'd try whatever I can to get on the development team of Bioware. My mission will be to get onto Bioware and do whatever I can to prevent its eventual acquisition by EA.
Super specific. Love it
someone's gotta do it
I'd talk to my aunt (elderly back then, but still with it, and eager to tell stories about her life), and LISTEN to her stories, and write them down.
When I finally got around to doing this, she was no longer able to really tell a story anymore.
Jesus, I'd spend all my time doing this, till I got booted back to the present.
Of course, explaining to people who I was would take up a lot of that story time I reckon.
Smoke in a restaurant
I'd go skateboarding.
"But Kruw, you can go skateboarding in 2025"
I know, but there was a style and culture around it back then. Participating in something while its popularity is at its peak isn't an experience that can be imitated.
Buy Amazon shares? Go watch a blockbuster. Max mortgage and buy house+summer place
Look for my mom and hug her.
6'ish years to stop 9/11 from happening.
How would you stop it?
good question, I don't know how one would stop it. everyone would think you are a loon. maybe it's one of those events that is destined to happen in some form or another.
it would make for a wicked movie script though.
It reminds me about Quantum Leap 1989 tv show. Main character were jumping in different history periods and tried to help people. In one of episodes he sang never existed before in that time period song, and his sister didn't want to believe him he's from future
view on youtu.beI'm not sure I'd change something if I wake up in 1995, I'd rather visit people I have no more chance to visit today
My first thought was watch ninja turtles and ghost busters
My second thought was buy Apple stock
Go see my 3 remaining living grandparents.
I'd probably find a friend to smoke weed with on a beach and talk about the mysteries of life.
Send enormously prescient letters to Selena, Tupac and Nortorious B.I.G.
Hmm. In 1995 I was 22 years old. I would have done what I did then. No regrets.
Buy $MSFT shares.
Enjoy being a kid again and my family.
I don’t know why, but I thought about pulling a Biff and betting on sports events whose results I remember.
Stop being a Nintendo fan boy and look forward to PS1
I'd probably see a punk band and watch The Simpsons.
Time to set some things straight...
I told a few people to get on top of their cancer, y'know, so their chances of curin' it would be higher.
I wake up, I'm 2 years old again... Fidel is still alive... it's 1995 in Cuba... and the Special Period begins! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hahaha 😅 I don't know, I was born in 2001, I imagine I would be an ordinary citizen working for someone.
Holy shit, im 13 again?!?!? Ok, game face Aardvark. I know for sure there's like 3 girls in the next 4 years or so that are going to come on to me hard. I'm not going to be oblivious this time. That's right Ariel, we're gonna smash!
Fucking lol. She's laughing at the meme too.
Hahaha, felt that.
Girl I was into took my scarf and ran away playfully once (one of countless signals in retrospect), but I just went like "ha-ha what a brat" and went to class.
Some say she still has my scarf to this day.
Yeah, man ... Aaariel!!
You know her?! I can put in a good word for you if you want.
Sorry bud, you're still a middle aged aardvark: #1029226
Oh shit. I guess I'm going to jail? Sorry Ariel, my bad.
Does your wife know you're here?
I'll probably have to call her for bail, so she'll know eventually. 🤷
I'd watch this movie
Judging by the year, you'd be watching us fight over beanie babies in the divorce.
I don't a fuck what she says either, I'm taking the princess Diana bear.
She'd probably be into you tho.
She'd definitely be into me. It's 1995, I'm balding, middle aged, and have magical internet money thst hasn't even been invented yet. I know exactly what time it is.
Now I'm kind of into you.
Anytime, anywhere. 😘
I'd probably go somewhere busy, like a mall, and watch people without phones and screens. I'd also be curious about supermarkets and what I could buy.
Yes the screen thing would be really interesting. What did people do back then, when waiting in line, etc? Just...talk to someone? Stare into space? Read a book?
I honestly can not really remember.
They thought about things and looked into the distance. If magazines were available they thumbed through those. That's what I remember.
I could watch a Seinfeld episode live. I could go to some early personal computer conferences.
Besides groceries? Less electronics, more tobacco products.
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Find two somewhat meaningless jobs that pay ok Hit the stock market hard Write Sci Fi and fantasy in my spare time
Turn on my black&white square TV.
Buy Bitc- oh wait.
Gone, it's all gone.
Go to a Michael Jackson concert.
RIP MJ
I'd talk to everyone who I cannot now.
Locate Satoshi Nakamoto
Am I stuck in 1995 at my present age? If so that would suck
If I am not thinking about erasing my sons I would catch some bad people committing bad acts that weren't exposed until recently. No one anyone here knows. But I could do some justice for some people I know. Stop some things that haven't happened yet.
Man, being a hero is not the first thing I'd think of.
It wasn't mine either but after thinking about it more it came to me. If I can't just invent bitcoin or if I'm basically not going back to my wife and sons and don't want to mess up their futures... I'd do some good stuff that is impossible to do now and disappear maybe not to cause more issues with timelines. Even so... I wonder what the ripple effects would be for me and my family because it would change some positives for me. And... I have no guarantee of the outcome either.
Am I who I was in 1995, assuming I was alive already, or am I present me in 1995?
Present you. You go to sleep tonight and wake up in 1995.
My existential fear when it comes to time travel is that I make a significant enough change that my daughter never exists, so I would probably place as much distance between myself and anything that I know came to bear on my life or my wife's.
So, maybe move to rural Japan and teach English.
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