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You wake up and it's 1995. What's the first thing you do?

925 sats \ 67 comments \ @k00b 8 Jul AskSN

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.

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164 sats \ 15 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jul

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!

42 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Jul

Sorry bud, you're still a middle aged aardvark: #1029226

92 sats \ 8 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jul

Oh shit. I guess I'm going to jail? Sorry Ariel, my bad.

84 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Jul

Does your wife know you're here?

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jul

I'll probably have to call her for bail, so she'll know eventually. 🤷

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8 Jul

I'd watch this movie

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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 9 Jul

She'd probably be into you tho.

101 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 9 Jul

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.

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 9 Jul

Now I'm kind of into you.

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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 Jul

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 8 Jul

Fucking lol. She's laughing at the meme too.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 9 Jul

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.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 9 Jul

Yeah, man ... Aaariel!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 9 Jul

You know her?! I can put in a good word for you if you want.

216 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 9 Jul

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.

84 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 9 Jul

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.

111 sats \ 2 replies \ @spicygoron 8 Jul

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.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 9 Jul

Super specific. Love it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @spicygoron 9 Jul

someone's gotta do it

133 sats \ 2 replies \ @cmd 9 Jul

6'ish years to stop 9/11 from happening.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 9 Jul

How would you stop it?

150 sats \ 0 replies \ @cmd 9 Jul

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.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @kruw 9 Jul

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.

82 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Jul

Smoke in a restaurant

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 9 Jul

Buy Amazon shares? Go watch a blockbuster. Max mortgage and buy house+summer place

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 9 Jul

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

I'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

85 sats \ 0 replies \ @lv99slacker 8 Jul

Look for my mom and hug her.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 9 Jul

I don’t know why, but I thought about pulling a Biff and betting on sports events whose results I remember.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 9 Jul

Stop being a Nintendo fan boy and look forward to PS1

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 9 Jul

I'd probably see a punk band and watch The Simpsons.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 8 Jul

Time to set some things straight...

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 8 Jul

Go see my 3 remaining living grandparents.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8 Jul

I told a few people to get on top of their cancer, y'know, so their chances of curin' it would be higher.

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Jul

My first thought was watch ninja turtles and ghost busters

My second thought was buy Apple stock

66 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 8 Jul

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.

109 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 9 Jul

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.

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 9 Jul

They thought about things and looked into the distance. If magazines were available they thumbed through those. That's what I remember.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 9 Jul

I could watch a Seinfeld episode live. I could go to some early personal computer conferences.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 9 Jul

Besides groceries? Less electronics, more tobacco products.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 9 Jul

Hahaha 😅 I don't know, I was born in 2001, I imagine I would be an ordinary citizen working for someone.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul

Am I stuck in 1995 at my present age? If so that would suck

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 8 Jul

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.

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 9 Jul

Man, being a hero is not the first thing I'd think of.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 9 Jul

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.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Jul

Am I who I was in 1995, assuming I was alive already, or am I present me in 1995?

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8 Jul

Present you. You go to sleep tonight and wake up in 1995.

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Jul

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.