Wonder why it looks like 1982 outside.
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I can smell the engine fumes in this picture
Actually 2002 was pretty good in terms of climate change. The only big ass car was the van, the ford truck and explorer. Everyone else was barely getting into SUV space wasting. Catalytic converters were a daily thing and you had to pass smog just like today.
Save enough money to buy/mine at least 40BTC, then retire early
Don't loose the 7btc for 7€ each Biy more, even.
Write a detailed cautionary tale about the future in the form of a cyberpunk novel that either doesn't gets published or that is largely received as a cool roadmap instead of a warning.
Oh so you wrote "Do not invent the Torment Nexus".
Tell people the funniest joke about who would become the president of the USA, and that the president would be a lap dog of Russia.
do I wake up in 2002 at the age I was that year or as my current age?
current age: find my family, convince them I am who I say I am, and get a bunch of preventable health issues checked out
age in 2002: play super smash bros lol
Tell everyone I know to STOP teaching old people how to use the internet!!!
So much this 😭
- assassinate an infamous real estate mogul
- turn in a well connected financier that owns an island
- expose the Pandora and HSBC papers
That well connected financier isn't the only one, isn't even the biggest or worst one. Why focus on him?
because he's the one with the island of secrets that could take them all down.
Figure out when I can buy Bitcoin.
2009, so in 7 years.
Try to short Enron, and then cry because I was a year too late
- Cry that I'll have to deal with dial up internet again (my first broadband came around mid 2003)
- Be glad that we're back to Windows XP, not as glad that most linux distros still suck for desktop users
- If it's May or earlier, buy USD (I live in Brazil and that year the exchange went from 1USD ~= 2,35 in March to 1USD ~= 3,85 in October, due to elections)
- Wait, do I even have any money? Gotta hurry to the bank and see if my account exists and has what I had yesterday (2025)
- Fuck, paper money and coin for nearly everything
Hug my mother. I miss her.
Invest in a few companies, then invest in Bitcoin right from the start, invest some more,. become the first trillionaire by 2010, use my influence to become sort of a benevolent dictator to push for actual democracy, and eventually get multi millionaires prohibited by having counties simply place hard caps on net worth (app beyond a certain level goes to taxes)
You can't be a benevolent trillionare. Now, rub yourself with the spices, you're going to the oven
I would
I would use it to remove the rich from this world. Force hard taxes, hard caps on net worth
Kill the man before he raped my brother.
Go back to sleep and hope to wake up in the 80’s.
Invest in all the right stocks, then use that new Internet cyber-thing to promote the relationship between a famous blowhard conman and world's biggest child sex trafficker, and get them both thrown in prison, then invent eBay, PayPal, and Reddit.
Play Conkers Bad Fur Day on N64 with my childhood friends. Even if I’m an older man with my younger version and his friends.
I am very open to weird shit happening thanks to a ghost encounter when I was younger. Oh man I would love to talk to younger version of myself where the memory was fresher, everyday that goes by feels more like it was a dream but I know it wasn’t.
Wait a few years.
LAN parties, $5 personal pizzas and 6 packs of preferred off brand soda, and a garage full of Xbox’s and tvs. Halo with friends is a cherished memory.
I would prevent a couple deaths or at least warn to be cautious driving in bad weather and not to play with guns.
I would also try to prevent the loss of story telling due to all kinds of crazy studio reasons with the Halo video games.
I would try to meet John Prine and Ryo Fukui.
I would possibly not use crystal meth, if there wasn’t a trip to rehab and moving to a new city to start a new life I would’ve never met my wife.
Do I de-age? My answer changes wildly based on if I'm a child or in my 30s.
Attend live sets of dj Heather, silicone soul, slacker, Lemon8, Colette, Kerri Chandler, Frankie knuckles, David Alvarado, Paolo Mojo, Kevin Yost, Armin van Burren, Dj Shah, Aly &fi fila, Ferry Corsten and Paul van Dyk. I for sure miss some, but I got most of them.
Be too young to actually enjoy all the fun adult stuff, if I'm not going back at my current age.
Otherwise, I would absolutely love to find a certain person to ensure the 7th generation consoles do not have motion controls to ensure the 3rd Sonic Riders game wouldn't be a flop for that reason.
Drop out of the highschool I'm going to and enroll in the next closest one. Don't let any adult try to convince me otherwise. I never had a chance at my old shithole.
If you were to really wake up in 2002 and tell people about the crazy shit in the 2020s, they'd probably think you're insane or high on drugs
That's exactly what I was doing in 2002, and exactly what they thought
Buy amazon stock.
Not spend so much time online.
Stop 9/11. Oh, wait. Uh... Damn. Try to stop this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_Cessna_172_crash wait that was January, probably not in January of 2002. Why did some crash a Cesna into a tower? Is that like a baby 9/11? Oh, the terrorist was inspired by 9/11. Shit, how many 9/11 copycats have their been?
How about shooting trump.
Immediately invest in CIT group, Netflix, dicks sporting goods and gamestop. Then I'd save the earnings for a few years and invest it in bitcoin. Id also spend more time with my parents.