Log on to BBS, play LORD and post to forums with local users, maybe chat a bit. Fire up sirdoom, waste a few bozos with a BFG. Drive to my buddies house maybe smoke some weed…
Yes, this is what people did back then
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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cmeu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Use my current knowledge of memory-safe system languages to invent D before Walter Bright, but without the garbage collection.
askat@programming.dev 1 month ago
Go back to sleep
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Hang out with my grandparents, ask them everything. I miss them.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Usually young people are not interested in learning about the past from the old…until of course the old die and their knowledge is gone for ever
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Take a big shit since I can’t shitpost
JackLSauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, your mom was around back then…
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’ll start a few websites, like facebook.com, twitter.com, reddit.com
Make them all federated sites right out of the gate
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Masturbate, back to sleep.
ErrorCode@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the correct answer.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
I don’t need to travel back in time to do that.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
jerk it
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Agreed. That’s always a fall back to fill some time
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have tons of crazy sex, do piles of drugs, camp, see live music, dance, sex, drugs, repeat.
Same as now really
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Find a job doing almost anything and being able to afford all of this is the best time traveling gift.
Also get a little house on that salary, oh if only.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As if. I went into crazy debt. I’m still paying for it. But yeah. Boo hoo
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
None of you said, “prevent 9/11.” For shame.
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 1 month ago
As a non american, this would have never crossed my mind
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, I feel like that one has some cascading effects that really fucked things up for pretty much everyone on the planet, so if you ever find yourself hurled back in time, you might consider it.
JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Well now I’ll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they’re only a US citizen.
I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn’t prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
We know where they went to flight school. Intercept and eliminate those hijackers. You will go to jail for murder, but you will change the course of history.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Assuming I’m the same age I am today, probably the same thing 😅
Wake up, morning constitutional, coffee, bong-rip, check the server.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Do you run a BBS?
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I run a couple of services. A blog for my partner, a media server (farfetched but certainly possible in 1995), as well as a matrix server.
I’m certain I’d be doing similar things in 1995. Based on my personality there’s no way I wouldn’t have gotten into that type of computing.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ask that blonde for a date…
Outsider9042@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Dial into my local BBS and play some door games.
yannic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Also, tell my younger self not to buy the lifetime subscription to the local BBS because this Internet thing is going to get faster and less buggy.
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 1 month ago
The first question is what kind of time am I in? Is it a ‘We are all going to die and I need to fix it’ or a ‘I need to grow as a person to get out’. If it’s the first one then I need to figure out when Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein are both going to be one of his flights to Epstein’s island and find a way to blow up the plane. If it’s the second one I guess do the same thing as that’s got to be good karma.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have thought about this over the years. If I am in a loop, it’s “which PhD am I doing this lifetime?” or “so I guess I am going to be the world’s best cabinetmaker this round.”
Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Calling friends and talk to them for hours.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Noo I’m using the dialup!
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gather as much money as possible and bet on the Chicago bulls to win 3 championships in a row.
jonesey71@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Now that is a parlay.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There were cell phones in 1995. Though vastly different from today still widely used.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, wireless internet connected devices existed, though the wifi standard was still two years off and they definitely weren’t widely used.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Turn on my computer and play some Command and Conquer or if it’s weekday, get up and prep for school.
bizzle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you played Tempest Rising yet? It’s good 👍
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
not yet, no budget remaining :D
Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pack the bowl and fire it up.
notarobot@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Go into a lab and start researching time travel. Proving to scientist that I’m from the future shouldn’t be that hard.
That’s 29 years ago. Eeryone I know is as good as dead. I need to find a way to go back
jpablo68@infosec.pub 1 month ago
1995? I’d play the just released International superstar soccer deluxe for the SNES
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Play video games.
kinther@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Play a Diku or Circle MUD on the local library BBS
vane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Register google dot com
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They would just pick another dumb name, like Stample or Croakle and we’d be stuck Croaking things
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not even buying Apple will net you any short term money.
Better to bet on the superbowl (or whatever sports knowledge you possess).
vane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not about money, it’s about altering reality.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Since I am an absolute idiot who doesn’t know what happened back then in order to rake in money off of things like betting ( either legal or illegally ), probably just ( assuming I have 'em ) listen to CDs on my CD player and hop on computer and hope I have any good games.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Pee lol
TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Jork it
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
With… Magazines? Shudder
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.
But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TV was shit, but online porn already existed. Only thing you’d be missing is doom scrolling memes and shit YouTube videos.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.
aeroplayne@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’m just arguing here - but dot matrix was mostly irrelevant at that point. Inkjet, bubblejet, and laser jet existed.
anas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you wake up as you are now, or as you were back then? I didn’t exist in 1995.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m sure you were still a twinkle in your parents’ eyes. And I don’t envy what you’re about to see.