1992 - so I could experience my daughter’s first year again. Don’t get me wrong, I love her as an adult, but I missed a lot of time with her as I worked long hours then. I actually would relive almost any of the last 27 years if I could spend more time with her.
My first year of college. I would totally redo it and not spend it partying the whole time. Aside from that, any year before 1996 when all my grandparents were still alive would be great.
@PocketBrain See. That’s my point. I don’t care what beginning or about any beliefs. At this point in our human timeline when I can connect to you over the internet I don’t think humans now can ever imagine “making due” on the land.
Was the oxygen the same? Would I be able to breathe? Was the universe always in existence and then poof eatth? Did Eve really eat the apple? What were the first humans like.
I can make this TL;DR for you but I think this is enough for now unless you reply back and want to continue this riff raff.
@DVDBZN Apparently if you Google this you get a number like January 1st, 4.54 billion years ago. Once again, hard for a human to comprehend 1000 years much less four billion.
If I have to worry about contracting some sort of ancient disease, than I’m not going farther back than the early 1900s.
From a choice in the poll, I would probably choose 1997, as that is when I was born, and so I could see just how boring it was back then. It would be interesting to see just how much has changed in my short lifetime thus far.
@DVDBZN if anything you’re more likely to give some sort of disease than contract one. If you’re properly vaccinated you’re going to have strains these folks don’t have in their bodies. And as long as you practice hygeine
2007, the exact moment I was offered $527K for my house and foolishly decided not to sell. I’d grab me by the shirt and slap some good sense into me. Just a few short months later I could have purchased twice the house for 1/3 that much and had $350K in the bank.
@ruouttaurmind yep… hindsight is 20/20 isn’t it. i made 150% profit on my vacation home in 2004 because for once i listened to the doomsayers early on, was chastised for being a fool, then bought a nicer place in 2012 for about what i paid for my original place in 1996. real estate balloon/burst times are just fun.
@bayportbob@ruouttaurmind unless it’s 2008, the rental you’re living in goes up for sale at exorbitant pricing and you decide to buy your first house so it doesn’t happen to you again. Right before the bottom drops out…I’m just now getting out from underwater.
@bayportbob@llangley The real kick in the bollocks for me was I was spending most of my time in England then, and the house was really just a place to keep my stuff. If I had sold when I had the chance, I would have put my stuff in storage and rented a little apartment for when I was back in the states waiting for my next visa eligibility. Hardly even a mild inconvenience!
To be honest though, without a crystal ball, I would probably make the same choice again. I knew the subprime mortgage market was tenuous, but I never figured it would have the amount of impact on RE values it did. In my area, resale house values were among the hardest hit in the country, some dropping by 70% to 80% in just a few months. Small 2 and 3 bedroom houses in questionable areas could be purchased for as little as $20,000. Same houses were selling for close to $100,000 prior to the bust.
Can we change it or do we have to relive it the same?
If we can change it, 1971. I’d go to medical school and marry the guy I was dating.
If we can’t change it but just have to relive it, any time in the late 1980’s. I loved going back to college, the people in my life, and the work that I did.
Things now just suck.
I’ve seen enough of those time travel movies to know that no matter where you go, trouble lurks around every corner. I would have picked 18bc or 1593 but then I thought there’s probably a pile of disgusting, filthy, unbathed rapists nearby whereever I landed with maces and hatchets and not being in the royal court there’s probably worms and maggots crawling on my yet to be prepared ditch dinner and so I decided to stay right where I am.
Any day between 2006 and 2013, when my best friend, my mom, my dad, my brother, Simba and Jasmine were all still alive. You can pick any year with them in it and just groundhog day loop me for all my remaining years.
I am not sure about the parameters of the question. I’d be concerned about clothes, languages, food, disease, getting burned as a witch… and it’d be hard to weigh the value of some kind of personal intervention vs. the prospect of getting rich vs. actually picking a historical period to experience, assuming “experiencing” a historical period is a thing that could be done.
I mean, I was into Bitcoin for a little bit, but only because I loved the idea of a decentralized Internet currency. I thought the people mortgaging their houses to “invest” were fools, and that the project was a mess. To be fair, I didn’t really have any money at the time, or I probably would have gone in for a couple thousand
I’d love to check out the rise of the Internet pre-web again (or early web). I remember being not immersed in, but brushing repeatedly up against, this techno-utopianism that was so optimistic… wouldn’t mind revisiting that, before the tech giants grew up and destroyed it.
It’d have to be fascinating to, having hindsight, hang around any of the American revolution, or Isaac Newton’s world… or maybe some of the philosophers of antiquity. What would it be like to live in the times of, and speak to, someone like Euler, or Plato. Or to exist as a wealthy man in Rome – to get a view of a civilization probably as self-congratulatory as we are (but without the exaggerated emphasis on sci-fi trappings that are more constrained by engineering realities and – particularly – human psychology than we tend to admit. Cell phones are not the future arrived. It’s still just us.). I bet it’d be a surprisingly familiar experience, once you got used to it, at least if you could pack a toothbrush and some toothpaste. (As a peasant, not so much…)
Then again, when I was 13 or so, early teens anyways, I was trying to get into computers, to hop on that late 90s bandwagon, and I failed for lack of resources. Even with libraries and free time, without any adult support, I couldn’t find anything relevant and recent enough to read. If I had managed to get myself enrolled in a different school, maybe the social thing and the career thing would both be improved.
It’d be really interesting to visit my grandparents as young adults. A nurse married to a soldier, first house in the area to have running water in the kitchen. House built around these big pieces of timber…
You know what this is, I forgot to drink coffee. Uh, sorry.
1997? Weird that you should pick that year, but it was an easy choice as that is the year my Mom died. I’d readily go back to that year just to be able to see her again.
In my lifetime, 1987. I would’ve made numerous different decisions from college/career to women. I am definitely one of those people who would do it all over again if I could choose different paths.
I daydream about going to a king a thousand years ago and giving new tech to see how they react, but give them what poor people like me use and tell them it’s what Kings use.
Like driving toyota silica to the gates to give the King a bowl of ramen with hotdog slices.
@JoetatoChip You’d love what my kid (adopted from Cambodia as a grade schooler) said some years ago. There was an article about Angelina Jolie and her Cambodian son Mattock going to Cambodia and eating a fancy dish featuring spiders. She said, “Poor Cambodia people are so smart. They convince rich people to pay lots of money to eat what poor people have to eat”.
1976 The downward spiral had not started yet most everyone who wanted jobs had them and healthcare. Life was as much fun as it was gonna be. Nobody knew just how stupid life in the US was about to become.
The year of Apple’s IPO. Then return to current time. Retire to my private island.
@sjk3 same but with the beginnings of Bitcoin. Retire to my private small country.
@12liny @sjk3 same but Amazon’s IPO. And retire on my ranch in west mountains of haleakala, where I’d distill Hawaiian whiskey.
1992 - so I could experience my daughter’s first year again. Don’t get me wrong, I love her as an adult, but I missed a lot of time with her as I worked long hours then. I actually would relive almost any of the last 27 years if I could spend more time with her.
@mydrivec 1900 house
If I retain my current cognitive capabilities, then the year I was born - I really want to see what that was about!
Some time in the 1920’s
@hchavers 1983. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.
#BiggestRegerts
You guys are breaking my heart.
Probably just about any year 1980-1995.
I meant to type 1986. See how stupid I am?
@Barney fuck. I starred your 1976, that was the last year I lived at home. Guess I’m 10 years stupider than you!
Fuck these answers. Return to creation and see how this shit really played out. Change my mind.
@reclaimercube I was going to say, “Big Bang!”
@PocketBrain See. That’s my point. I don’t care what beginning or about any beliefs. At this point in our human timeline when I can connect to you over the internet I don’t think humans now can ever imagine “making due” on the land.
Was the oxygen the same? Would I be able to breathe? Was the universe always in existence and then poof eatth? Did Eve really eat the apple? What were the first humans like.
I can make this TL;DR for you but I think this is enough for now unless you reply back and want to continue this riff raff.
@reclaimercube
Sure, but do you know what year that was?
@DVDBZN Apparently if you Google this you get a number like January 1st, 4.54 billion years ago. Once again, hard for a human to comprehend 1000 years much less four billion.
1775, Tun’s Tavern, birthplace of the United States Marine Corps, drinking then signing up with the Corps originators.
@carwinew semper fidelis !!!
@carwinew At least you can go back and celebrate the Marine birthday every year at the AC location.
Either 1975 (NYC) or 1962 (London). To see the world of rock and roll as it was about to be turned on it’s head.
@00 I can tell you… concerts and the rock scene in NY in 1975 was great!!
If I have to worry about contracting some sort of ancient disease, than I’m not going farther back than the early 1900s.
From a choice in the poll, I would probably choose 1997, as that is when I was born, and so I could see just how boring it was back then. It would be interesting to see just how much has changed in my short lifetime thus far.
@DVDBZN
I would choose 1997 as well. That was the year I got married. I’d do it all over again, even the really hard parts.
@DVDBZN if anything you’re more likely to give some sort of disease than contract one. If you’re properly vaccinated you’re going to have strains these folks don’t have in their bodies. And as long as you practice hygeine
@DVDBZN Tell your spouse that… in a way that you would have said it in 1997.
2007, the exact moment I was offered $527K for my house and foolishly decided not to sell. I’d grab me by the shirt and slap some good sense into me. Just a few short months later I could have purchased twice the house for 1/3 that much and had $350K in the bank.
@ruouttaurmind yep… hindsight is 20/20 isn’t it. i made 150% profit on my vacation home in 2004 because for once i listened to the doomsayers early on, was chastised for being a fool, then bought a nicer place in 2012 for about what i paid for my original place in 1996. real estate balloon/burst times are just fun.
@bayportbob @ruouttaurmind unless it’s 2008, the rental you’re living in goes up for sale at exorbitant pricing and you decide to buy your first house so it doesn’t happen to you again. Right before the bottom drops out…I’m just now getting out from underwater.
@bayportbob @llangley The real kick in the bollocks for me was I was spending most of my time in England then, and the house was really just a place to keep my stuff. If I had sold when I had the chance, I would have put my stuff in storage and rented a little apartment for when I was back in the states waiting for my next visa eligibility. Hardly even a mild inconvenience!
To be honest though, without a crystal ball, I would probably make the same choice again. I knew the subprime mortgage market was tenuous, but I never figured it would have the amount of impact on RE values it did. In my area, resale house values were among the hardest hit in the country, some dropping by 70% to 80% in just a few months. Small 2 and 3 bedroom houses in questionable areas could be purchased for as little as $20,000. Same houses were selling for close to $100,000 prior to the bust.
Can we change it or do we have to relive it the same?
If we can change it, 1971. I’d go to medical school and marry the guy I was dating.
If we can’t change it but just have to relive it, any time in the late 1980’s. I loved going back to college, the people in my life, and the work that I did.
Things now just suck.
I’ve seen enough of those time travel movies to know that no matter where you go, trouble lurks around every corner. I would have picked 18bc or 1593 but then I thought there’s probably a pile of disgusting, filthy, unbathed rapists nearby whereever I landed with maces and hatchets and not being in the royal court there’s probably worms and maggots crawling on my yet to be prepared ditch dinner and so I decided to stay right where I am.
@lseeber you really are a realist. well said.
@bayportbob lol… am I ?
1945 - end of WW II and the Tigers win their second World Series.
I can read about all those time periods, and I am very comfortable right now, so I decline to travel back in time.
32 AD.
@rustyh3 Execution of Jesus?
@JoetatoChip @rustyh3 that’d be 33 years too late if it really means"after death"
2006 because I wonder how things would have turned out if I hadn’t made a few stupid phone calls.
EASILY 1979. I looked great, felt great, and was totally into the 70’s bliss vibe.
Any day between 2006 and 2013, when my best friend, my mom, my dad, my brother, Simba and Jasmine were all still alive. You can pick any year with them in it and just groundhog day loop me for all my remaining years.
I am not sure about the parameters of the question. I’d be concerned about clothes, languages, food, disease, getting burned as a witch… and it’d be hard to weigh the value of some kind of personal intervention vs. the prospect of getting rich vs. actually picking a historical period to experience, assuming “experiencing” a historical period is a thing that could be done.
I mean, I was into Bitcoin for a little bit, but only because I loved the idea of a decentralized Internet currency. I thought the people mortgaging their houses to “invest” were fools, and that the project was a mess. To be fair, I didn’t really have any money at the time, or I probably would have gone in for a couple thousand
I’d love to check out the rise of the Internet pre-web again (or early web). I remember being not immersed in, but brushing repeatedly up against, this techno-utopianism that was so optimistic… wouldn’t mind revisiting that, before the tech giants grew up and destroyed it.
It’d have to be fascinating to, having hindsight, hang around any of the American revolution, or Isaac Newton’s world… or maybe some of the philosophers of antiquity. What would it be like to live in the times of, and speak to, someone like Euler, or Plato. Or to exist as a wealthy man in Rome – to get a view of a civilization probably as self-congratulatory as we are (but without the exaggerated emphasis on sci-fi trappings that are more constrained by engineering realities and – particularly – human psychology than we tend to admit. Cell phones are not the future arrived. It’s still just us.). I bet it’d be a surprisingly familiar experience, once you got used to it, at least if you could pack a toothbrush and some toothpaste. (As a peasant, not so much…)
Then again, when I was 13 or so, early teens anyways, I was trying to get into computers, to hop on that late 90s bandwagon, and I failed for lack of resources. Even with libraries and free time, without any adult support, I couldn’t find anything relevant and recent enough to read. If I had managed to get myself enrolled in a different school, maybe the social thing and the career thing would both be improved.
It’d be really interesting to visit my grandparents as young adults. A nurse married to a soldier, first house in the area to have running water in the kitchen. House built around these big pieces of timber…
You know what this is, I forgot to drink coffee. Uh, sorry.
1997? Weird that you should pick that year, but it was an easy choice as that is the year my Mom died. I’d readily go back to that year just to be able to see her again.
In my lifetime, 1987. I would’ve made numerous different decisions from college/career to women. I am definitely one of those people who would do it all over again if I could choose different paths.
1972, the year I met my ex-wife. If I knew then what I know now…
Plus I would have spent that unaccompanied year in Okinawa. That would have been awesome, one of my few actual regrets to this day.
I daydream about going to a king a thousand years ago and giving new tech to see how they react, but give them what poor people like me use and tell them it’s what Kings use.
Like driving toyota silica to the gates to give the King a bowl of ramen with hotdog slices.
@JoetatoChip You’d love what my kid (adopted from Cambodia as a grade schooler) said some years ago. There was an article about Angelina Jolie and her Cambodian son Mattock going to Cambodia and eating a fancy dish featuring spiders. She said, “Poor Cambodia people are so smart. They convince rich people to pay lots of money to eat what poor people have to eat”.
betcha ribs would be great back them with some great rub and home brew
31st december 1999 23:59:32
1976 The downward spiral had not started yet most everyone who wanted jobs had them and healthcare. Life was as much fun as it was gonna be. Nobody knew just how stupid life in the US was about to become.
@cranky1950 Got a point there.