If you could go back to any period in time, where would you go and why?

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SassyCarrot

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Me- Nuremburg with a few banana skins to through on stage before Hitler makes his speech, he falls over and people of Germany say "I'm not voting for him, he's a fucking idiot"
 

shogunblade

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I'd definitely go for a less original answer and say the beginning of 1970, January 1st.

Work through the 70s, checking out the Electric Light Orchestra, see all, if not most of their concerts, work my way from there.

My whole point of going back in time wouldn't be to overthrow tyrants, alter history or anything truly all that weird, just follow my favorite band from the beginning to the end.

That would make me happy.
 

Latinidiot

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Renaissance. I would not be seen as a heretic or something, and I could live in the wilds with no one to disturb me in any way. AND there would be no technology.
 

Zacharine

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1980s

Sanitation, some of the modern marvels we enjoy (mm, fridges) and close enough that my knowledge is enough to guarantee me becoming a millionaire thanks to foreknowledge. All without giving up such wonderful inventions like the Internet, cellphones, LED-technology...
 

iLikeHippos

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There is no instance in time I want to be except in the future. FUTURE MEANS BETTER WEALTH, HEALTH AND THINGS!
 

Geo Da Sponge

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France, 1423. My mission? To assassinate Joan of Arc before she can lead the French army to victory in the Hundred Year War. With England dominating France, it's power could spread over Europe to put England in a prime position to control all of Europe. With the increased power in Europe the American Revolution would be swatted aside. In time the British Empire would have direct control over the most powerful industrial nations in the world as well as the other colonies.

So yeah, I'd be like a human Terminator.
 

therookie95

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If my age went back to what it was but not my memory I'd probley use the save point, do something really stupid for the fun of it, than load and go back in time, but really i'd probley do the same thing but in a serious way like trying to ask out a girl with different stratiges and keep goin back until they work.
 

The Shade

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I would go back to all of the most famous historical photographs, and jump in the background with the double "thumbs up".

Let's see historians figure THAT one out.
 

Lust

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15th or 16 century Europe has my vote. It'd be really neat if I could roam the countryside with my horsey, visit an inn, then join in a festival. Granted I'd be treated differently because of the amount of melanin in me.

It would seem so peaceful, except it wasn't, I think.
 

fanozelda9

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I'd go to 1985. Wrestlemania, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and DQ's Blizzards, what else do you really need?
 

TheGreatCoolEnergy

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I'd go back like 6 years and see the Matches in concert. Then I would go to Ancient Rome. Then the time of the dinosaurs. Then I would come back.
 

TheGreatCoolEnergy

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The Shade said:
I would go back to all of the most famous historical photographs, and jump in the background with the double "thumbs up".

Let's see historians figure THAT one out.
This is a brilliant idea
 

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The best time to have ever been alive in history is right now. I would not want to have been born at any point in the past.
Though if this is a time machine you're talking about (you weren't quite clear in the OP) then I'd try to ride a brontosaurus.
 

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SakSak said:
1980s

Sanitation, some of the modern marvels we enjoy (mm, fridges) and close enough that my knowledge is enough to guarantee me becoming a millionaire thanks to foreknowledge. All without giving up such wonderful inventions like the Internet, cellphones, LED-technology...
The world-wide web was invented in the 90s... plus, it was really slow.
 

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The Shade said:
I would go back to all of the most famous historical photographs, and jump in the background with the double "thumbs up".

Let's see historians figure THAT one out.
Or hold up a placard in each photograph you appear in - the first one saying "spoilers - more to follow" and each subsequent photograph containing a placard detailing events that will occur in the future.

OT: Whatever time period would best allow me to shove human technology years ahead of itself. And make me rich in the process. Like reverse engineering a modern PC when Bletchley Park were attempting to build a computing device during WW2.

Alternatively, I'd travel to more ancient times, and rick-roll archaeologists by writing the lyrics to 'never gonna give you up' on various cave walls and ancient buildings.

Maybe both.