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      No. It’s the Chromebook/iPad generation. I feel like they don’t truly understand the Internet or computers. Having used Windows 98 and onward, my friends and I had to really learn to troubleshoot and learn the innards of the system. Nowadays, everyone is in a protective shell like Chrome OS, iOS or Android. It’s all dumbed down now. Simplicity isn’t always good imo

      Edit: Windows was a gateway drug into Linux

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      Then start plotting buy/sell points for bitcoin and GME (don’t want to risk forgetting those over the next 15-25 years)

      Ninjaedit: and real estate right after the 2008 crash

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    Boot up my dad’s computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.

    Or go to the library I guess.

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      I was probably playing Cannon Fodder at that time on our computer.

      d:
      cd games
      cd cannon
      (space)(space)(F3)
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    Go online, just like I did back then. I’ve been online before the web. And it was more fun. And no ads.

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      I didn’t go online when I first woke up. I often though would check see how my downloads did overnight. In 95 I was still using the local collage dial in.

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          For a time around 1998-2000 I ran the internet connection for a multi county agency on one 56k dial up and squid proxy server. It worked and it worked pretty well. We did however love it when the local cable company finally rolled out two way cable internet.

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      Apple, Amazon… Plenty of others to choose from that were considered joke stocks for some reason

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    Boot up my 486, call over my friends and play MK1

    Alternatively make some new M:TG decks using my new Ice Age booster packs and head to the FLGS

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

      • 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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        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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      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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        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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    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