1491 to the soon-to-be landing point of Christopher Columbus. I would bring an arsenal of modern day weaponry and then arm and train the natives in anticipation for when his ships appear on the horizon.
1: Ten seconds from now, I have shit to do.
2: A week ago. “I bet you a billion dollars that sub implodes…”
I’ll choose to go back a few minutes so I can stop myself from getting sucked into the time portal…
Smart dudes posting to jump to pre-Bitcoin times coming in 3-2-1
You know, there’s a variety of assets you could get in on the ground floor with.
And the smart move would be to spread it around anyways, no telling what a sizeable investment in - for instance - Apple might have had early on, maybe it would change history so that it didn’t turn out successful
Better to do some bitcoin, some of each major stock you can recall, and funds for industries you know will take off
1990s A.D. so I can enjoy the great music whilst also being able to see the birth of Linux.
Now I’m imagining Linus sitting in his basement and suddenly some nerd just pops into existence behind him. “Don’t mind me. I’m just going to watch over your shoulder.”
lol
I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.
If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.
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