Time Travel!

Look, I'm going to be travelling back in time to July 23, 1983. Purely for entrepreneurial reasons: I'm wondering what ideas I should steal and sell as my own. So far I have:

• Tetris (Be a great Atari 2600 game, right?

Shit, that''s it. Can you help me out?

Hot Pockets

Where are you going to get the DeLorean?

I'll give you 20 bucks (each) if you take out

Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
John Ashcroft
Dick Cheney
Saddam Hussein
The Mickey Mouse Club (20 for the whole group)
NKOTB (20 for the whole group)

With that money you should be able to make a few good bets. Stick it in a bank account and you be rich when you get back here.

Open one for me too

Windows 2.0.

Yes, now you can be responsible for generations of irrational hate.

start the 80s music revival 20 years early.
buy analog synthesizers while they are still cheap and no one wants them.
buy shitloads of microsoft stock.
tell your 9 year old self to learn the moonwalk before Michael Jackson does it on TV.


[Edited on Jul 23, 2003 by mingusdew]

[Edited on Jul 23, 2003 by mingusdew]

Oh yeah, Kill Bill Gates too.

Just remember to help your mom and dad meet at the high school dance and fall in love, and to dump a truckload of horseshit on some asshole.

Oh, and to wear Calvin Klein underoos too.

You should probably smoke those Kids Incorperated monkeys too.

As for inventions, the pull-up (I had cloth and my sister had these fucking miracles of invention),

For kicks, you should encorage those beta tapes and laserdiscs to overcome the VHS and stockpile acid before the drier years.

They were still in love when I was seven...

Forget the inventions.

Remember who upsets who in major sports, who wins the world series and other major championships and clean up in Las Vegas. You will be rich... and invest in the Yugo.

can we exchange marky mark for donnie wahlberg? donnie wahlberg's done so much more with his career. i almost forget that he was a new kid. i never forget that mark walhberg is only marky mark.

A better browser than linx and all the software and hardware to make it worth your while.

stfu. Three Kings forgives his funky hutch.

no no no! you cant try to change history! then biff will end up being a millionaire! dont you people pay attention?

Stock options:

• Starbucks (they're evil, but money's money, right? Right? Oh, come one.)
• Yahoo
• Ebay
• Coca Cola (that's always a good bet)

Don't steal any ideas for your own. Even stealing them's a lot of work. Just know what to buy stock options in, and go from there.

I'd say put some money into Microsoft or Yahoo. You'd be rich as hell!

Post-Its

Oh, and satrt saying stuff that only people from the future would know. If you predicted shit like the Bills losing 4 Super Bowls, or Tupac's death, you could get all the ladies. Chicks dig a guy who can tell the future.

Yahoo was all the rage in 1983.

go to mexico city on september 19, 1985 and tell everyone that you're going to cause a huge earthquake. then count it down and watch everyone's face when the rumbling starts. then start laughing maniacally.

It's been done

i'd buy a bunch of eighties toys and bring 'em back for a mass ebay extravaganza... that, or just for nerdy bragging rights, like "yeah, i've got all the original 1983 generation 1 transformers still mint in their boxes."

be sure to bring your own weapons... time travelling can be hell if you are not well armed.

-bobby

i just want to know how they are going to prove it didnt happen.

Make a stupid look doll, give them a birth certificate and call them Cabage Patch Kids. You'll make millions.