Probably about two or three years before I was born. I was a 90s baby and lived through one of the best decades in human history in terms of childhood entertainment. Nick Toons, Razor scooters, sock’em Boppers, and Pokemon just to name a few. Also cartoons themselves were the best that television had to offer. Hey Arnold, Rugrats, and Dragon Ball Z, just to name a few. If you were a kid in the 90s, you were in your PJs, eating cereal and watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, while your Holographic Charizard sat in your sock drawer so nobody was knew where it was. And your Nintendo 64 with the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was still warm because you threw a tantrum when you couldn’t beat the Water Temple. After Cartoons, you got your clothes on and went outside to play baseball with the boys while ignoring the girls because they have cooties and you don’t want to contract cooties, while secretly having a crush on one of them.
At the end of the day, your parents called you in for dinner because it was getting dark out and, with mud and grass stains littering your shirt, you laugh with all your friends, knowing that, after a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, you where going back to your room to play on your N64 again untill 2 in the morning when your parents are finally fed up with the noise and tell you to go to bed.
Since I don’t have a lot of experience with many places outside my hometown, probably my hometown around 1985AD so I could grow up enjoying the 90s.
As much as I love the technology of today, I absolutely love 90s cartoons, music, and plenty of old 90s games. Plus the Internet of the time on places like Geocities, from what I’ve seen from archived sites, absolutely had amazing charm to them.
The one thing I wouldn’t like about the deal is the part about being born in the 80s since I’m not a fan of that decade. That, and I am completely unaware of the history of mechanical heart valves and when they started becoming a thing used in open heart surgery (if the medical technology of the time would even be able to pick up the little growth like thing that was attached to my valve when I was born).
Can I choose my gender? If not, then not any earlier than I was born.
I choose to use my powers for evil. I will pop into existence in 2000 BC, 50 yards from the future Apollo 11 landing site. Neil Armstrong is going to make one small step for a man. Then he is going to shit in his space diaper when he finds a 4000 year old dessicated infant corpse just sitting there, completely inexplicably, exposed on the lunar surface.
Makes me think of the watchmen hbo series.
I really liked being a kid and teenager through the 80s and 90s, I don’t think I’d change that. But I would certainly accept the opportunity to do it again!
Maybe this time in Japan, instead of the US. Though the US would be fine too.
Height of the incan empire would be nice tbh. Fucking beautiful place to live and relatively comfortable conditions
Except for the human sacrifice
The Incans did very little human sacrifice and in the places where sacrifice was more common, like the aztec empire, it was mostly prisoners of war. Essentially they just moved the deaths of war from the battlefield to the city, they weren’t any more violent than the people of the old world. Even still we probably overestimate the scale of human sacrifice because so many of our records come from the spanish who aren’t exactly a trustworthy source on the matter.
Personally I consider modern places like the US to be significantly more violent than any of the indegenous cultures of the Americas. We just don’t see it like they did.
Sometime in the future, assuming the human race even lasts long enough.
Basically when a world like Star Trek TNG exists.
All my stupid health problems could be fixed.
To be able to travel space would be great, to lay on the moon and watch the Earth. Go admire Jupiter (from a distance).
Work, not because I have to, but because I enjoy the challenge and want to better myself and humanity.
I know for the show they couldn’t really go all out, but I think being a holodeck author would be fun as a side hobby. Could be in a fun working out with whomever inspired you. Hands on learning, anything. Visit places you can’t (like surface of Venus). But also think of like what a video game would be like because you wouldn’t need a controller or VR headset you’re just there. So you could be a Space Marine. Or be Spider-Man! We’ve done reading books, we’ve done watching books, we’ve even done audiobooks… But there you could participate. Or maybe just be there and watch it unfold.
Victoria, Australia, 1990s. I say Victoria because it’s not as hot as most other areas of Australia and I don’t do well with heat.
I’d have loved it if I could have been there with the Elephant 6 crew in Athens GA during the 90s. The music those folks produced is some of my favorite, and it’s totally the music I’m trying to make myself.
Any link to your music? I love the E6 collective. Most people just know NMH but the whole lot of them were just amazing
Nothing published just yet! I saw the E6 documentary this summer and it lit a spark in me and my mates. My biggest influence is from the Olivias, and particularly I take more after Will Hart’s style (with my best mate being the Bill Doss of our group.) I’m actually gonna try doing some field recordings to try a Green Typewriters-esque musique concrete piece.
Germany, say 1910s-20s. Don’t worry guys, I got this… 🔫😎
Guess the late 50s or sometime in the 60s. Guess this would be a very good compromise for the quality of life, listening to good music and a good perspective for life in general.
Belle Époque Paris sounds pretty nice. I sure hope nothing bad happens immediately after that ruins my vision.
I wouldn’t change anything. More than happy to be born in the early 90’s in the country I live in.
