You wake up in 1991

[Alcamonic]

Become lost without my smartphone and internet to guide me anywhere.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Join the forces as the role I am in now... Get a medal for Iraq 1... Go to Bosnia and Kosovo, but contribute to using air power in a more productive way... pioneer the RAF as it is today!

Also... get into electronic music... big time!

 

[iseko]

Buy apple stock
Buy google stock
Buy microsoft stock

Spend every bloody penny I have on buying those three!!! Next, find mark zuckerberg and fund his facebook idea for 20% ownership of the company. Sell those stock once it goes public.

After that? Hookers booz and druggs most likely. I'll be broke by 2014 so... business as usual by then.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

But then something interesting happens. Let's say that based on the "prediction" of 9/11 that 9/11 is prevented. Because it's prevented the revenge excuse the Bush Administration used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq is gone, and if the excuse was what allowed that reality to occur then maybe the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan never would have happened, or at least would have happened differently to how they did. Because the invasions never happen all reality *connected to* the invasions never happens - in other words the entire course of history is changed, triggered by the prediction of 9/11.

Alternatively, Al-Qaeda sees the increased security, and doesn't attack on 9/11, and so attacks on some other day. Maybe they guy luckier this time around, and all the planes reach their targets.

The problem with stuff like 911, is that people don't really see the problem until it's happened. You had procedures to be put in place if that sort of thing happened, only it didn't click that this was what was going on.

Crashing airplanes into buildings sounds like a problem in theory, but didn't seem like a real threat people really had to react to, so the preventative measures failed.

Also... The Taliban would still have Afghanistan under Sharia law. The discontent in the middle east would increase over time and Afg would be used more and more as a training haven. US would invade anyway to stop this, as there would be increasing threats from the country and no stable govt to stop it.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Well it would kinda suck for the most part. I was born in 1992 so it would be a world I've never known. Sure, being able to win bets about future sports results and investing in the right companies is awesome. Though living in that time would be awfully lonely. If I sought out my family they would just think I'm a crazy homeless man and call the police or something.

It also doesn't help that I would be in my early 40s by the time 2014 rolled around again. I would most likely be super rich from my bets and investments over the years, but seeing my 21 year old self still have his whole life ahead of him would make me jealous.

 

[Mithcha]

I was about 5 in 91... I suppose as an adult I'd be largely lost without the internet, I've grown alongside it. Literally, it's grown as I have - scary thought that. I'm actually one of the last generations to have had a period in their life when the internet DIDN'T EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a dinosaur!

I'd get myself a walkman and promise to never let it go, for all the advances we've made, the fucking ipod and variants of them are not fucking one of them. Picky, dirty touchscreen piece of shit that constantly wants to connect and update - I want shit that just does what I fucking tell it to do rather than telling me what it wants to fucking do. Fucking lump of shit.

Fuck it, I'd work to sabotage apple so they never make the fucking thing. Fuck knows how but insanity will find a way.

Honestly, I'd likely enjoy the 90s, until 98 or whatever. Prefer to go back to the 80s though, no Britney Spears.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Same as most people I would reckon -

Find the ten year old version of myself and give him a damn good talking to.
Invest in the stock market.
Become a modern-day soothsayer predicting world events with uncanny accuracy.
Use my fame as an all-knowing prophet to bat wwwaaayyy out of my league.
Fall victim to an assassination plot by conspiracy theorists who, due to my unerring knowledge of important world events, have become convinced that I am some kind of evil mastermind behind every scheme and plot that their diseased brains can concoct.

 

[kasperbbs]

I would probably just jump off a bridge or something, 1991 was a pretty miserable time to live and i don't even know the results of any important sports matches to bet on.

 

[Rabbitboy]

Well I would say using my future knowledge to get stinking rich.
But in reality I would likely flip out, cry like a little ***** and go insane.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

But then something interesting happens. Let's say that based on the "prediction" of 9/11 that 9/11 is prevented. Because it's prevented the revenge excuse the Bush Administration used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq is gone, and if the excuse was what allowed that reality to occur then maybe the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan never would have happened, or at least would have happened differently to how they did. Because the invasions never happen all reality *connected to* the invasions never happens - in other words the entire course of history is changed, triggered by the prediction of 9/11.

So... the butterfly effect essentially.

OT: Here's what I would do.

1. Scrounge up as much money as possible within the course of a year.
2. Invest all of it in Microsoft and Apple stocks.
3. Live life as a hermit and a drifter for a good 10 years or so.
4. Sell all Microsoft stock in 1999
5. Use money gained from Microsoft stock to invest further into Apple.
6. Live life as a hermit again for another 13 years
7. Sell all Apple stock in 2012 (The current peak of their stock price)
8. Bet all money on Germany winning against Brazil 7-1 in the FIFA 2014 semifinals.
9. The day before I end up time traveling back to 1991, find my present self and give half of my money to him(me) and tell him to do exactly what I did with the money.
10. Repeat steps 2-10 until I become the single richest man in the world who owns majority stock in everything.
11. Become supreme overlord of the universe! >

 

[The White Hunter]

1) Weep in sorrow that I have returned to the nineties.

2) Buy MS, buy Apple.

3) Profit.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Also... The Taliban would still have Afghanistan under Sharia law. The discontent in the middle east would increase over time and Afg would be used more and more as a training haven. US would invade anyway to stop this, as there would be increasing threats from the country and no stable govt to stop it.

Possibly...they might have simply used the odd airstrike rather than an invasion.

The US wanted Iraq much more than 'stan. However, if they found an excuse to go to Iraq, but weren't also diverting massive resources to 'stan at the same time, things might well have turned out a lot better in Iraq.

 

[RealRT]

Try to learn where I am. If it's anywhere but Russia, I buy a Sega Mega Drive.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Also... The Taliban would still have Afghanistan under Sharia law. The discontent in the middle east would increase over time and Afg would be used more and more as a training haven. US would invade anyway to stop this, as there would be increasing threats from the country and no stable govt to stop it.

Possibly...they might have simply used the odd airstrike rather than an invasion.

The US wanted Iraq much more than 'stan. However, if they found an excuse to go to Iraq, but weren't also diverting massive resources to 'stan at the same time, things might well have turned out a lot better in Iraq.

This is true. The AFG lul during the Iraq years was still a drain, and did neither country any good!

 

[Something Amyss]

Become rich enough to privately retire. Things may not be great, but I don't know that trying to fix them will necessarily help.

Also, see several of my favrouite bands live.

Why not prevent it? Avoid decades of war and misery and hopefully make a more peaceful relationship between the west and the middle-east?

In fairness, they didn't even listen to their own intel.

- Learn Guitar and steal all future songs that rock

Depending on how early you arrive in 1991, you might not even need to learn guitar. Just steal "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

<.<

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Well, I'd know where to invest my money.

 

[JoJo]

- buy all the Lotteries.

Only if you've memorisized individual lottery results already, the OP didn't give you any warning you were being transported to 1991 after-all.

OT: The usual investments and bets on sport results I already know, plus I would make a real effort to stop some tragedies like 9/11 and 7/7. I mean, even if no-one would believe you, you could give some useful tip-offs, cause some micro-disaster to get people to evacuate if you had to, anything really. Otherwise, I'd live my life as I would have now, albeit missing all the cool technology we have now!

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'd get into magic from the very begining, go to concerts, and would probably enjoy lower inflation.

 

[VincentMm]

Go party at The Haçienda.

 

[briankoontz]

Crashing airplanes into buildings sounds like a problem in theory, but didn't seem like a real threat people really had to react to, so the preventative measures failed.

The biggest reason 9/11 happened was that people in power didn't really care to have it not happen. It was a boon for the Bush Administration, making it way easier for them to achieve their foreign policy. The very people responsible for preventing it to some extent care about the lives of Americans, but they also care about their careers - rocking the boat by criticizing the way intelligence work was conducted in the American government may or may not have saved 3,000 American lives but it may well have gotten the criticizer fired.

The same thing is happening on a smaller scale right now in Gaza. The murders of three Israeli teens allowed the Israeli state to achieve their policy objective of a military assault on Gaza, killing over 150 Palestinians so far. This corresponds to the 3,000 American deaths leading to the deaths of over a million Iraqis, displacement of millions more, and many more deaths and destruction across the Middle East.

I don't agree with "eye for an eye" justice, but even the most staunch Old Testament advocate can't possibly agree with "burning a town down for an eye". This is a bit tongue in cheek, because neither the American nor Israeli state cares about revenge or justice - they care about their degree of power and control. Everything that happens, whether it's 3,000 dead or a mere 3, is an excuse to implement another power move.