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Hmm. Before the end of the 19th century you're going to run into non-standardised/completely bespoke parts problems. How are you on a lathe, or doing blacksmith work? Hot riveting was a separate trade which you wouldn't have to do, at least.

I'm kinda obsessed with what I call technological bootstrapping, and so I have useful book knowledge about every step along the way. Doing it in practice is another thing, though; the locals are going to run circles around me unless I can invent stuff. (And even the scenario rules aside, not starving or being "disturbed" while I work on whatever project is a thing)

So, I think I have to echo the "it's not going great in 2025" answer.

I put all my skill points in computers so I could go back to the 70's maybe. The computers made before the ibm pc still seem close enough to be usable by me.

I could also go to neolithic era as rock-on-stick-skull-crusher

I think my knowledge of first aid and basic anatomy would be of some use in any pre-modern time period. I know enough to make a positive difference at least (wash that cut, dont drink water from downstream of your encampment, give the sick plenty of fluids, etc)

Beyond that, i'd be behind everyone else. I can fish, forage, garden, cook, start fires, and build shelter, but so could everyone for most of human history. I could probaby keep up with a hunter-gatherer society, but i'd be the least capable among them.

Grew up hunting, growing, and preserving a good percent of my food. I might need to brush up on specifics but i think i could do okay if i had social supports for my disability (food providers usually do/did)

I feel like the further back I go, the better I would do. Send me to 65,000,000 B.C. I'll out caveman all the neaderthals.

I'll go way back and wow people with mayonnaise.

Windows 98 SE

I don't have any skills so I don't think I could get really far back.

I haven't practised it in a long time but my formation was in a horticulture school, I could go pretty far back.

I'm a chef, so probably back to when fire started to be a thing people used.

maybe somewhere in the greek era where I could be a cynic messing around

Italian Renaissance maybe? I can paint pretty good

Some of the original plastic reactors still run where I work so 1950's is the oldest operational unit and wasn't modernised. No computer. The corpses of the older stuff remain abandoned and in place. Not much different, just much less production rate and smaller.

1940's I suppose.

I'd be fine in any time period where I could still understand English spoken however. I don't care what I do for a living. Can't remember how far back that would be, Rob Words surely has a video about this.

How long has Excel been around?

With my work skills I won’t be particularly useful before the first high level programming languages started coming in the 60s. But I also gained some handiwork knowledge over time so I won’t be a lost cause if someone sends me further back.

The day before yesterday with great confidence.

1921.. Did people mess up their Model Ts?

Not very. Once you get past my birth the technology is so different most everything I know outside the basics like reading, writing, and math are useless. I don't know how to program with punch cards in assembly. I might do alright in a chem or biology lab for awhiles. Pipetting would be a bitch though. EDITED - just have to say outside of skills I really would hate living before indoor plumbing was common so regardless I would not be very happy before ww1 and even then I would have to live in a city where it was the norm.