This thread is not only to discuss the 2010 comedy (which was pretty funny, btw, and loved the 80's nostalgia), but also to discuss what if you had one in real life. If you could not only travel back in time, but also back to your age at that time, when would you go? What would you do differently? I would go back to 2005 and enjoy being 26 again, and not have gotten in a serious relationship with my now ex-wife. I would also go back 2000 and enjoy being 21 again. I'm still happy with the way my life turned out though, so I don't feel the need to go to Rekall for memory imprints (but that's for another thread, lol).

I guess I'd probably go back to 1994, the earliest year I can remember, and see what my family was like. I bet it would be a trip!

Very interesting thread  :) I would probably go back to 2007 back when I was 13 and do some things differently. 2005 would be cool to go back to as well. And of course 2002, when I was little.  8)

I would go back to February 12,2008 and try to patch things up with a former woman I dated for a few years before she turned her back on me!

I'd like to go back to the 1960s as a teenager.  I think that would be groovy & far out.   

To follow the rules of your post though, I'd go back between 1976 or 1978  (and be 14 or 15 )  and change some things that I did,  or didn't do.

In 1997, Apple traded at $3, went to $30 during the 2000/2001 dot-com bubble, and went back to $6 and change a couple of years later.  iTunes?  Naw, everypony knows that MP3 players are where it's at, not this proprietary AAC thing with the DRM stuff that Apple was using at the time.  Just a basic DRM-free MP3 player that has no ecosystem for purchasing music, that's what people want!

True story, bro(ny), from 2003:

http://i.imgur.com/vZlWa.jpg

I was half-right - everyone from Apple to Amazon sells music in MP3 format without DRM.  But the space-time continuum has a way of repairing itself. 
AAPL closed at $692 last Friday, one hundred times what it was worth in 2003.
/facehoof.

Under these circumstances of being the same age I was at the time, I wouldn't go back very far.  The early 2010s (the time of my early 20s) have been the best, most eventful time of my life so far and, assuming things go as planned, things are setting up well for the mid-2010s.  I guess going back to my high school years in the mid-00s might be kind of neat, but I'd only want to stay for a few days before leaving.

If we're talking for a longer period of time, I'd go back to around this time last year in 2011, so I can repeat my study abroad in Japan again that started in October 2011.  I miss it already.  Heck, even if it was for a few days, I'd still go back to some point in my study abroad. 

Well ... there was this one time I was hiding in the bushes with a girl I really liked ( we were playing a little adult hide-and-go-seek) and I didn't make a move on her (because she was the girlfriend of a minor friend of mine). You know there is a code of conduct for this sort of thing. Well, they broke up two days later, I also moved away for a year and I found out years later that she was really hot for me and hoped I would make a move! To this day ... I regret that loyalty. The minor friend also moved away and I never saw him again!

Give me that hot tub ... and that girl while you're at it!  ;)

In 1997, Apple traded at $3, went to $30 during the 2000/2001 dot-com bubble, and went back to $6 and change a couple of years later.  iTunes?  Naw, everypony knows that MP3 players are where it's at, not this proprietary AAC thing with the DRM stuff that Apple was using at the time.  Just a basic DRM-free MP3 player that has no ecosystem for purchasing music, that's what people want!

True story, bro(ny), from 2003:

http://i.imgur.com/vZlWa.jpg

I was half-right - everyone from Apple to Amazon sells music in MP3 format without DRM.  But the space-time continuum has a way of repairing itself. 
AAPL closed at $692 last Friday, one hundred times what it was worth in 2003.
/facehoof.


I thought about buying shares of Apple in 2007, knowing that their first iPhone was coming out that year. I didn't because it was about $120. If I did I would have over 5 times that much. I just didn't see any stock going that high.

I thought about buying shares of Apple in 2007, knowing that their first iPhone was coming out that year. I didn't because it was about $120. If I did I would have over 5 times that much. I just didn't see any stock going that high.


Nobody did. When GOOG went public at $100 in mid-2004, everyone in the tech sector said it was overvalued.  It closed at $710 today.  (The 2007-8 drop from $750 to $270 would have shaken everyone out.  Even AAPL went from $200 to $90 over that timeframe.)

That's the problem with time machines: like that cute chick from high school that you never asked out, you always remember the ones you could have had, without realizing it probably wouldn't have worked out anyway.  It's fun to look back, but one should always keep in mind that one can never go back.  Change the past enough, and you might never have wanted to go back in time to "fix" things in the first place.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kill_hitler.png

Not that it stops anyone.  Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.