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Yes, this is what people did back then

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  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Take a big shit since I can’t shitpost

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  • cmeu@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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…

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Register google dot com

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Not even buying Apple will net you any short term money.

      Better to bet on the superbowl (or whatever sports knowledge you possess).

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      • vane@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It’s not about money, it’s about altering reality.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They would just pick another dumb name, like Stample or Croakle and we’d be stuck Croaking things

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  • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Party like it’s 1999!

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I buy relevant stocks to make me rich and revel in the fact that there is no internet again. I am 68 and have been there and done that already.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, anyone who answers with anything besides “invest in the tech companies you know will get huge, then get into bitcoin early and ride it all the way to $100k each” is going to fail to thrive.

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am I a grown adult that wakes up in a foster care home and the child that was there previously is gone?
    Do I have to spend the rest of my life without an identity, or clinging to the “delusion” that I was this child that mysteriously disappeared?

    Am I a child with 40 years of life experience?
    Not long after, When I was 14, my first consensual sexual experience involved an 18-year-old. We got caught, and folks widely regard/regarded her as being inappropriate/in the wrong. Huh. First girlfriend, high school dances/romances. College. Jesus - every relationship basically forever.
    If I proceed down the same path, does that mean I’m the creep now?

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Get my SNES or Gameboy and play some Zelda.

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  • saimen@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Buy bitcoin

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    • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Too early

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    • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damnit…yea

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      • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Invent bitcoin

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    jerk it

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.

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  • n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Buy a cellphone. We already had them in the late 80’s.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who am I, Parker Lewis?

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here’s your new Motorola StarTAC with 120 anytime minutes and double-sized battery. That’ll be $600. Do you want to play with your Discover card?

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There were cell phones in 1995. Though vastly different from today still widely used.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also, wireless internet connected devices existed, though the wifi standard was still two years off and they definitely weren’t widely used.

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  • JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, your mom was around back then…

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gather as much money as possible and bet on the Chicago bulls to win 3 championships in a row.

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    • jonesey71@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now that is a parlay.

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  • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calling friends and talk to them for hours.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Noo I’m using the dialup!

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have tons of crazy sex, do piles of drugs, camp, see live music, dance, sex, drugs, repeat.

    Same as now really

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    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As if. I went into crazy debt. I’m still paying for it. But yeah. Boo hoo

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pee lol

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  • TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jork it

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With… Magazines? Shudder

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Turn on my computer and play some Command and Conquer or if it’s weekday, get up and prep for school.

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    • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you played Tempest Rising yet? It’s good 👍

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        not yet, no budget remaining :D

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  • Mio@feddit.nu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would make sure the family car accident don’t happen that year in October. Next thing would be to grow up and actually try to fix the climate problem so we reach the goal of 0 degree higher temperature on average. Imagine having 30 extra years to spare for this task. Telling how much damage it already have done and we have enough evidence that it is critical to start doing it now.

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  • Hatshepsut@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pack the bowl and fire it up.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TV was shit, but online porn already existed. Only thing you’d be missing is doom scrolling memes and shit YouTube videos.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d probably shit the diaper and watch my parents fight

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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a guitarist: get the biggest headstart possible learning music

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  • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Go see Jeff Buckley and tell him to stay away from the Mississippi River.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ahh sweet freedom

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