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I'll take 91. I get to experience all the exciting personal computing technology again before it all becomes web appliances and dark patterns. Back when the int

I'll take 91. I get to experience all the exciting personal computing technology again before it all becomes web appliances and dark patterns. Back when the internet, if you could get it, was a place of wonder instead of terror.

lostlogin 5y ago
If you are going back Marty, there are a few timelines I’d like altered.
- version_five 5y ago
  Fun fact is that the alternate 1985 in Back to the Future II where Biff ran Hill Valley was actually based on what it would be like with Donald Trump (as the sleazy casino developer) in charge.
pessimizer 5y ago
In '91 nothing followed you around. You could go to prison in Tennessee and Arkansas wouldn't be able to find out without a cop or two putting in a days work and making phone calls. People would get arrested, give a fake name, plead and do time, and be released without their identity ever being verified. Young adults in 2021 are hopelessly trying to outrun that time they tweeted a slur when they were 12.
unnouinceput 5y ago
Do you have kids? Sounds like you don't. All people would go back in time until they become parents. After that, faced with the harsh reality that going back in time would alter your decisions hence not getting the same kids, they, admittedly begrudgingly, back off.
Jeff_Brown 5y ago
If 1991 why not 1919? You'd want the world transition from the horse age to the space age. It might be a good while yet beforw we see any new changes as profound as that one. Okay I guess I'd rank crispr as highly. But the list of changes that profound is short.
- the_only_law 5y ago
  1991 still feels modern enough to have a decent chance at participating in that transition I suppose.
- HaloZero 5y ago
  1919 for any non-white person (or woman) would be a terrible idea. 1991 at least you don't have to worry about segregation. Assuming you're talking about staying in an industrialized nation.

lostlogin 5y ago

If you are going back Marty, there are a few timelines I’d like altered.

version_five 5y ago
Fun fact is that the alternate 1985 in Back to the Future II where Biff ran Hill Valley was actually based on what it would be like with Donald Trump (as the sleazy casino developer) in charge.

pessimizer 5y ago

In '91 nothing followed you around. You could go to prison in Tennessee and Arkansas wouldn't be able to find out without a cop or two putting in a days work and making phone calls. People would get arrested, give a fake name, plead and do time, and be released without their identity ever being verified. Young adults in 2021 are hopelessly trying to outrun that time they tweeted a slur when they were 12.

unnouinceput 5y ago

Do you have kids? Sounds like you don't. All people would go back in time until they become parents. After that, faced with the harsh reality that going back in time would alter your decisions hence not getting the same kids, they, admittedly begrudgingly, back off.

Jeff_Brown 5y ago

If 1991 why not 1919? You'd want the world transition from the horse age to the space age. It might be a good while yet beforw we see any new changes as profound as that one. Okay I guess I'd rank crispr as highly. But the list of changes that profound is short.

the_only_law 5y ago
1991 still feels modern enough to have a decent chance at participating in that transition I suppose.
HaloZero 5y ago
1919 for any non-white person (or woman) would be a terrible idea. 1991 at least you don't have to worry about segregation. Assuming you're talking about staying in an industrialized nation.