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Yes, this is what people did back then

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • cmeu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Party like it’s 1999!

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use my current knowledge of memory-safe system languages to invent D before Walter Bright, but without the garbage collection.

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  • askat@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Go back to sleep

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  • zanyllama52@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hang out with my grandparents, ask them everything. I miss them.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Take a big shit since I can’t shitpost

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  • JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, your mom was around back then…

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll start a few websites, like facebook.com, twitter.com, reddit.com

    Make them all federated sites right out of the gate

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Masturbate, back to sleep.

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    • ErrorCode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the correct answer.

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    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t need to travel back in time to do that.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    jerk it

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agreed. That’s always a fall back to fill some time

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    None of you said, “prevent 9/11.” For shame.

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    • JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a non american, this would have never crossed my mind

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      • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Assuming I’m the same age I am today, probably the same thing 😅

    Wake up, morning constitutional, coffee, bong-rip, check the server.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you run a BBS?

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      • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ask that blonde for a date…

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  • Outsider9042@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dial into my local BBS and play some door games.

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    • yannic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Calling friends and talk to them for hours.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Noo I’m using the dialup!

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now that is a parlay.

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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not yet, no budget remaining :D

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  • Hatshepsut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pack the bowl and fire it up.

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  • notarobot@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1995? I’d play the just released International superstar soccer deluxe for the SNES

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Play video games.

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Play a Diku or Circle MUD on the local library BBS

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Register google dot com

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pee lol

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  • TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jork it

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With… Magazines? Shudder

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      • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • aeroplayne@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m just arguing here - but dot matrix was mostly irrelevant at that point. Inkjet, bubblejet, and laser jet existed.

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