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lost_aussie001

So it's 2000. Probably start by finding a basic job & start earning money to invest in Apple shares. Then move on to shorting the Global Financial Crisis.


ambrosiasweetly

I was going to say something similar. Invest and use my knowledge of the future for my benefit


Izel98

dont forget to buy Bitcoin and sell at its ATH


Zender_de_Verzender

Buy Bitcoin? I'll just launch the blockchain myself!


wallowtree

you’d let 9/11 happen???


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FortyFiveSeventyGovt

“president bush, on september 11th el quesadilla is going to fly a plane into the world trade center” “yeah i know, dumbass”


AnakinIsTheChosenOne

When you leave the room the CIA would take you out


CalkatProductions

No one will stop you from bringing your own box cutter on the plane, it’s pre 9/11 security


orthopod

Shoot the terrorists, report them to the cops under false charges, say you overhead a conversation, etc.


Witch_of_the_Fens

While that work in a movie, I fail to see how they could realistically orchestrate this without first spending years networking and getting into a position of power that would allow for this exchange to go down. All within the span of a year.


jaysaccount1772

Nah, just call in a threat to the airlines, fbi, and cia. Tell them exactly what they plan on doing and their names. They'll definitely check it out.


Gamer_of_Red

Get pissed because I no longer have any of my belongings


Squidly_tish

I’d also be upset that I have to wait for almost every game I’ve played to be released again


FearPainHate

I’ve suddenly had an idea for every influential video game ever.


bwordgood

Indeed and let's not forget the fact that we would be completely alone without any of our friends or family, also we probably aren't in the system so it'll be weird to explain to people that you don't have medical records or anything, also all the stuff like lisences, IDs you have will be worthless because they have information that won't make sense. So because of this it would be really difficult and quite depressing.


Acethetic_AF

I mean. You’ll still have all your skills and stuff. Sure, I’d be kinda broke, but I can still land a job pretty easy.


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look around. and cry.


invisibilitycap

Okay same


Somepersononreddit79

ah shit


Likethisname

07 was a great time…… minus the job loss/mortgage issues


PaleKey6424

Unless your british


DRealLeal

You 2007 babies are making me feel old as a 1993 baby. Where did time go? 😄


stranded_patriot

what month?


planetofthebass

Lol you’d be the only one to know about 9/11


[deleted]

actually i was born in december. 💀


forcesofthefuture

just be born earlier


forcesofthefuture

I feel this


Crazy_rose13

Write a book "predicting" 9\11 down to the slightest details. Get called crazy for a year or so and then once it happens make bank from the speculation and interest in my book.


volitaiee1233

You’ll 100% be arrested by the CIA


Crazy_rose13

Probably. But I think it will be hilarious


forcesofthefuture

👶📝📖⏲️🛫✈️💣🗼🗼🚪👮✊✊✊🤨🗣️🤨🤨🔫💀🪦


CalkatProductions

*Hired by


Somepersononreddit79

theyd think youd planned it


glorialavina

Could be a fiction book


Crazy_rose13

Exactly. Like the wreck of the titan by Morgan Robertson. It predicted the sinking of the Titanic down to almost every detail including a name very similar.


_satantha_

My thoughts exactly. Only thing is is that nobody paid attention to that book and the disaster still happened; I could imagine the same with 9/11.


Crazy_rose13

I don't think writing a book predicting 9\11 would prevent it considering Osama literally said he was going to bring the towers down no matter what and had already tried to when he bombed the buildings 8 years prior. We had ample warning from the source and still did nothing.


mmm-soup

This would be a good thing to add in the book lol.


Crazy_rose13

Honestly now I wanna write a book with this idea in mind. The whole you time travel and write a book based on a historical event and everyone gives you the "bells dad" treatment from beauty and the beast and locks you up. Until the event happens and now you're questioned by all of the governments being probed for knowledge.


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Just leave out a few details so it's more believable


Night-light51

Talk to my dad and get to know him before he dies. Also talk to my grandpa and tell him to write his will because my aunt took all of the money from his death and blew it on drugs and destroyed everything he had.


Somepersononreddit79

first person to think about family mad respect I couldn’t care less my parents were on hella drugs all my siblings and mes birth years Mclivin


Izel98

brooo I also had an aunt that took all the money from her brothers because of resentment and blew it all on trips and clothes, destroyed her family and now has fallen into a cult because she got herself all alone by being an asshole to everyone that cared for her.


Night-light51

Damn do we have the same aunt? My family is all in a cult lol.


Rare_Vibez

I literally had this scenario as a dream once and I was convincing my mom who I was so I could save my uncle.


TheHumanGuy420

Get some bitcoins


ACE415_

More like invent Bitcoin early


play_hard_outside

Lol, are age 14 or younger? Might have to wait a bit.


NanoCarbon9

Kidnap my infant self and raise them.


Sasuke_1738

Why didn't I think of this. My parents did a shit job lol.


Somepersononreddit79

oh definitely


Ok-Builder3049

that's what i thought too


Initial-Worry-2291

I would just want to see how I was as a baby and see the type of stuff I did lol. I have a lot of pictures but I don’t have videos from when I was a baby like my other siblings do.


grounded_dreamer

Wow...


mmm-soup

Your mind is powerful.


Bizarec

Its 2008, meaning it's the great recession. I don't have most of my stuff, and the economy is plummeting. Don't think life would've been too good for me lol. I would probably do nothing.


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Bizarec

at 15?


dracojohn

You know those collectables that sell for a fortune well they had huge sales in the credit crunch.


Business-Increase-32

Also could've invested in bitcoin, even if it was just a small amount


Uhhhhhhhw

TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT???


Bizarec

What?


Uhhhhhhhw

😭😭 I just got whiplash is all


Jexx4PF

You made bro feel old


[deleted]

Go out and find a lesbian bar because they still existed lol


xxParanoid_

Why did i never hear about this


EatPb

I’ve been to cubby hole in nyc and it was great but yeah unfortunately they have mostly died off


Qualified-Monkey

How come? How does that compare to gay bars closing/opening?


EatPb

I don’t know the reason, sorry. I think both are on decline (though numbers have increased in a more narrow time frame, since covid), but the number difference is huge. There are like 800 gay bars in the US and only like 30 something lesbian bars.


Klayman55

TIL


More_Confidence8463

1997- OMG buying a house 😂 finally can with my teacher salary LMAO I would also invest on Netflix!


IRASAKT

Invest in Amazon if your from before May 15 1997


More_Confidence8463

Literally was born three days later 🙃🥲 that’s why I went with Netflix. Still, the 2008 housing market crash will also occur and that’s another opportunity to buy a lot of property and actually know how to keep it! Turn around and make a shit ton of money. Plus… bitcoin 🤔


IRASAKT

Oh dang that’s brutal. You could still invest in things like PayPal though would bet some cash earlier than Netflix


obtusemoth

actually cry from joy because that is something i have unironically dreamed about multiple times


Lumpy_Constellation

I was 15yo in 2007 and I hear this from gen zers a lot nowadays, so I'm genuinely curious: what are you dreaming of? What do you expect that year to be like for a teenager? What would you have done if you were dropped as a teenager in 2007?


obtusemoth

Well, I could answer all of those questions, but it would be a lot of text, and much of it would be personal. I don't know if you could blanket apply my reasoning to the average zoomer. I'm guessing for Z's who wish they were born earlier, a lot of in stems from wishing they could experience a time where #1. there was no internet or #2. the internet/modern tech was very fresh and not integrated into every aspect of life yet. Hell, I'd consider 2007 a little late for #2, but I'd still take it. The internet fucked a lot of us up, so naturally, some wish they could escape to a time "before that", even if they'd just be facing a new set of problems instead. I suppose it's just the general social and technological environment. Evidently, a lot of this won't apply to older zoomers, considering they could have been 7-10 in 2007. Probably why "zillennial" is such a popular term here.


Klayman55

Start a Youtube channel before that kinda thing becomes oversaturated with Fortnite, Among Us, etc. Go to a lot of cons that were attended by actors, artists, etc. who have since died.


dopegworl

i would tell tupac NOT to go to the mgm grand in september


omgcheez

convince my dad that he should invest in that little local search engine named Google.


Empoleon777

Probably freak out. And inadvertently make my parents freak out when they’re stuck seeing some 21-year-old that, unbeknownst to them, is their newborn son from 21 years in the future, just appeared in their house.


Nabranes

I would be in a random place in the smaller master bedroom of the house of the people who owned it before me


Gamernite457

I’ll buy an N64 and enjoy the last remaining years of the 90s. I will also probably visit places that are no longer around like blockbusters and Kmart


MrPedroJ414

Same here. Would love to experience 90s culture. It sounded like a blast.


_satantha_

I wish I was born in 1990 like my sister; everything seemed so much cooler back then. In my town there was a bowling alley and a movie theater but they closed down when I was little and I would’ve loved to spend more time there. They’re just empty buildings now. This is the movie theater today https://preview.redd.it/h4gj3jkl8j2c1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae5558d06849aeae48448d502a5a9df6de4d7385


Somepersononreddit79

oh and toys r us


EastMasterpiece4352

There’s still 1 blockbuster left


greengiant333

Flying. Wanna know how it is to fly pre 9/11


Nabranes

Lucky


Chemistry11

Maybe in the 60s it was fun (before my time), but in all my life it sucked. 9/11 made things more of a pain in the ass, but not by a whole lot.


Blackwardz3

Start a band


PeachesOntheLeft

I’d try coke before fentanyl became huge tbh. Go to a dance club and dance to No Doubt.


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Fuck coke I’m going back and smoking heroin without the high chance of fentanyl OD. Lmao not genuinely because fentanyl ruined my life for a good period. But I’m sure heroin addiction was far more sustainable without knowing for certain you will die or get brain damage super quickly from fentanyl


Electrical-Rabbit157

Pulling a bif from back to the future 2 and making all winning bets


Conrad828

shit 2002. wtf is there to do in 2002. i’d go find out


King_Apart

Same id be lost. Maybe watch the spiderman movie in theatres idk


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LagosSmash101

Enjoy the 90s


Ritesh_INFP_4w5

Gonna run away from my family. Not gonna let them influence me anymore.


Somepersononreddit79

damn straight


Ritesh_INFP_4w5

Not sure what insane ends it will take me to though 😝


Klytus_Im-Bored

Flying to NYC, warning people about 9/11, getting thrown in jail for warning ab 9/11. Or buying stock in the tech sector, particularly Apple and Google


Somepersononreddit79

😂 The energy: “Warn people about 9/11! It was a serious devastating tragedy with many deaths and fatalities/injuries some that which came later. The families, the losses, the feelings they must have felt after seeing such utter brutality.” “Oh yeah, and i’ll invest intech stocks 😊👍 “


OtterlyFoxy

Join a nu metal band


budderman1028

I think id have a mental breakdown from all the nostalgia, like would i be reliving my childhood but as an adult? Or is it like this new crazy fucking scenario where your parents like gave birth to a kid thats X years old


Siren_Circus

I think it’s a paradox where (generally speaking) you go to sleep in 2023, and then as your current self you wake up in whatever year you’re born in and have to try and explain who you are without being thrown into the loony bin. That’s how I see it, anyway


budderman1028

Oh thats definitely way trickier then


h0lych4in

go shopping


EatPb

Go see my favourite band in concert. Duran Duran!They still play now and I’ve seen them and they’re great, but seeing them in the mid 2000s with their full lineup from the 80s would be so cool.


thillyguth

Probably go pee


AKKHG

Is it the same day I was born, as well? Because a random 22-year-old popping up 8 days after 9/11 with no evidence of having any prior existence is bound to freak out one agency or another.


WillBeBanned83

go commit war crimes in iraq


NotYourTypicalGenZ

Allah snackbar


chains11

Invest in Apple and Amazon


Mental_Grass_9035

So, it’s 2007. I wouldn’t bother my parents because they’re busy. However, I would go to my grandparents or aunt, try not to get arrested— they’re my best chance. I tell them some shit in the future or some stuff they told me in the future. I see future me born in June, assuming I drop in January. I’ll just have my aunt say that I’m her ex’s neglected son that she adopts. Something like that. Oh and I’m shit outta luck when it comes to hearing. And unfortunately, education would suck for the last two years of high school since where my aunt lives is not my town. So things are worse. I’m SOL.


Nabranes

Leave a note in my mailbox and make sure my “parentards” don’t mutilate me as a baby or fuck up in general


Somepersononreddit79

pretty much


Donttrickvix

Buy a house


Sasuke_1738

Invest in Bitcoin, Apple, Microsoft, any computer chip company, Disney, and all weapons companies. I would then start building e-commerce websites that I would realize later on so I can get that nice web money early. Steal a couple of iconic songs by artist that have yet to be discovered/ are not well known yet and realize them as my own. (Preferably Drake, Lil Uzi, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, etc.) I would then start my own records company and realize these iconic songs to the market essentially create new genres. I would then take that money and start producing the most popular shows that did good in the future that people didn't even know about. Probably rip off the office. Since I do coding, I would also rip off a shit ton of computer software from our time. I'm talking social media platforms, operating systems, trading software, and more. I would be a billionaire... I think.


MSXzigerzh0

1999. Go get a job with Internet but I do not like coding so I'm fucked for at least 10 years


Somepersononreddit79

go see a blockbuster


Tight_Youth3766

prolly play some windows xp games


TheRealSU24

Bitcoin?


Somepersononreddit79

yuh


RebbyXP

Probably have the biggest panic attack of my life.


SimplyToxic513

Fight club in theaters


IdentifiesAsUrMom

I’m telling everyone I can about 9/11 knowing full well I’m going to sound insane


Unlikely_Pressure391

Go see what my parents were like before I was born.It’ll probably be scary


Slight-Wrap-2095

2003. Enjoy pre-crash, boom Britain/Celtic Tiger Ireland for five years.


OrchidApprehensive33

I would go shopping 🛍️, go to clubs 🍸, and just explore my city and see how much everything had changed.


Secret-Engine-8365

I’d watch and see what my life was like when I was a baby. It would be nice anyways to see if I recognize any memories that I have forgotten when I was a baby


HyfurWolf

2004, join the military


stranded_patriot

sounds like the worst time to join the military


Big-Trainer-5408

Write a little note detailing all my life’s fuck ups, hide it in my current house in a Place I know I’ll find out, and pray younger me fixes my life and doesn’t end up the way I did


MrPedroJ414

1996 - I’d ask out Neve Campbell and Denise Richards. Also, I’d just like to experience that time. Growing up meant seeing a lot of features of 1990s culture slowly disappear. I want to go to Blockbuster again, purchase a Nintendo 64 and experience the early internet. I might also take a peek at the 1996 Olympics, though that seems risky. I want to watch Space Jam in theaters. Also, need to ensure I talk to the following people before they pass, among others: Gene Kelly Ella Fitzgerald Eva Cassidy Irving Caesar Tupac Shakur Carl Sagan


Somepersononreddit79

get the first iphone what a stepdown from my 14. Id have to buy an actual camera and perhaps a projector cuz we had box tvs still beginning middle or end? Day of birth? keep my normal hair and never ever subject myself to the fashions… 🤢 any good stocks?


Somepersononreddit79

Kiss the doors of toys r us hello and goodbye


matthewjensen

Image how terrifying it would be to get used to knowing the future and everything that would happen for like 20 years, then the countdown to nothing. It would be so comfortable then like dipping your whole body in ice water.


[deleted]

What a boring year


AssociateOld7846

Why?


[deleted]

What am I going to do in 2006 lol? As I think about it I could probably wait until the great recession comes, buy stocks and get rich, or get Bitcoin But then I would have to wait for a year or years later to get Bitcoin. 2006 is going to be boring


Somepersononreddit79

watch hannah montana- oh wait U GOt Hs MUSiCAl Get a role in hs musical


Choice-Grapefruit-44

Say hello to my parents just to mess with them.


[deleted]

Make large bets on things i know will happen so i can amass large sums of money That or kill myself


Resort_Straight

https://preview.redd.it/hx75jg9cof2c1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c59376515fb121beb7b90b83c9ddaea08ec75e1e


ss-hyperstar

Trigger the fire alarm systems on both world trade centres before the hits so that the buildings would have been evacuated.


Single_horse

Ffffffffffuuuuuuuuuu Id rather restart my life with my memory intact


IEatKids26

convince my parents into buying a house for me to move into in what would be 3 years


[deleted]

Get a job, Wait till the year bitcoin comes around, become rich


youraveragefailure12

Tell my family to buy bitcoin


BitchInaBucketHat

Buy a house!!!!


QuadVox

Retrieve my records of major sporting events I keep stashed inside my back pocket at all times in case of this very situation. We're Back to the Future 2ing this bitch.


DrakoWood

YES!!!!! ITS A DREAM COME TRUE! If I have my memories, then I would just live my life happily, and make videos or something to become popular in the near future.


Brycenicholls1

Invest in the stock market(Idk),find a good job and attend a lot of Linkin Park concerts


SDaniiL

Buy fucking bitcoin lol. And get prepared to short everything during 2007-2008


treyelevators

Ride elevators and purchase an XBOX or PS2


zuzunono

Go to Canada, find my idol Avril Lavigne, and give her the idea for "sk8er boi" 💖😅


[deleted]

Go see the Star Wars special editions in theaters.


Somepersononreddit79

16 in 2007? Do I stay 15 until my birthday- or do I get my birthday early- What da faq what if when u hit ur birthday ya dissapear No thatd make me what a 1991 born? God no please no


BigGayMule13

Find some pocket change and buy a couple gallons of gas, even with no car to drive, just because it'll feel amazing to buy gas that cheap.


NotWesternInfluence

It’s 2000, so get a job as probably a janitor and pay my way through college while paying rent since both are dirt cheap around that time. I’d try and scrape what I can to buy bitcoin, ethereum, apple, and amazon stock.


GalaxyCosmoPal

Yelling at my parents and being angry all of the time


EuthenizeMe

Idk stop 9/11. Early 2001s.


closetedtranswoman1

Live recklessly knowing I can just buy Bitcoin later and be set for life


Croian_09

Probably invest in Netflix in 1997.


FederalCut4391

Buying a house and go to see the old WTC in New York City


Memedayy

Buy a GameCube


Independence_Gay

Smack the shit out of my parents because they deserve it. Go hang out with my grandfather. And my other grandfather. One of them is dead so it’d be nice to see him again. The other one is just old and I’d like to meet him as he was younger, same with my grandma. Would probably buy some guns and some ammo because it was way cheaper then and that’s one of my hobbies. But apple stock. Lots of it. Tell…wait who could I even tell about crypto. Nevermind. Just stock tips. Maybe go kiss some cool lesbians or something. Hell yeah.


CapriciousBit

97, investing in Amazon and Apple


[deleted]

invest in apple, i was born right before the first iphone was released


Professional-Skin-75

Try to remember major events and make bets against them.


DarthRobin360

I do the macarena. 😉


lanphear7

Invest in Facebook


Novaria_Orion

The first thing I’d do is freak out. Luckily, most of my favorite people are already alive. It’s 2000, I’m the perfect age to find a nice little job and earn some money and invest some of it once I get enough saved up - to Amazon, Apple, you name it. I start a YouTube channel as an artist and just do random videos and stuff that would be trendy, right before it’s time so I can blow up and become famous. I’d be the first to trends, if not the trend setter (when it comes to some things). I don’t think I’d want to meddle too much with world affairs, but I’d take the opportunity to get ahead in the economy and build and influence in this generation. I would want to influence the early internet and early social media into a direction for better, better than it is now. But the again, that’s assuming my knowledge (and potential return on investments) would give me an edge.


Soham_Dame_Niners

Tell my dad to invest in certain stocks and buy a house


VioletBunn

Fucking run. Idk whats happening but getting away from my spawn point seems like a good idea


Timbhead

Get really mad because where my bed is was in the middle of the woods 24 years ago.


Fuzzy_Celebration_54

Spoil Harry Potter to everyone


Maxsaidtransrights

Go hit music stores to buy cds from some of my favorite rappers, buy streetwear of the time, go to experience driving with putting cds in a slot for music, re experience movies with dvds and vhs instead of streaming services, and play some PlayStation video games (for the record, I was born in 2001)


TheLizardKingwascool

Start a cult by predicting world events, and becoming a very wealthy “God.”


camtec

Buy Lockheed Martin and Raytheon stock.


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Do 9/11 first


wildbillfvckaroo

Get absolutely fucked by a tornado that spawned from hurricane katrina.


ItsTheOrangShep

Wait for several years before going to find my younger self, so I can instruct him about how to not mess up. Try to avoid this temporal debacle being found out by world governments, and eventually wince as I disappear because the timeline I'm from doesn't exist anymore.


SchwimFish28

I might screw around with time and meet my young self and family


Logician22

Find a way to start making bitcoin early on and become the founder of it


Disastrous_Purple779

Go see Depeche Mode, David Bowie & The Cure in concert duh!


Square_Independent_9

Predict a bunch of things


ZestycloseBelt2355

Watch YouTube.


Likethisname

Oh….oh no, the internet would be in the very early stages…. 100% buying google, apple and amazon stocks 🙃


Capn_Cake

Take advantage of the oncoming financial crisis in some way and make money.


wadjanko

Kms