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[Elfeater]

If you had to live back in time where and when would it be?

I would live in Rome during the time of Julius Caesar.

[Vector]

Presuming I got to have a sex, sexuality, and phenotype change (so that I no longer looked ambiguously Jewish), I think it'd be pretty cool to hang out with Isaac Newton.

[kaijyuu]

Most periods of history suck. Sure you've got good parts, but I'd rather not deal with rampant disease and whatnot.


So send me back to my early teenage years... let me fix some things and screw up others.

[Eagleon]

10th-14th century North America, somewhere relatively friendly and trade-oriented. I'd love to see what it was like before the native population basically collapsed in on itself, and maybe meddle a bit with anachronistic technology once I had settled in and learned the language. On that note I've always wanted to write (or maybe start a wiki on) a broad field-guide for people that have found themselves stuck somewhere without simple things like germ theory and the scientific method.

[Elfeater]

10th-14th century North America, somewhere relatively friendly and trade-oriented. I'd love to see what it was like before the native population basically collapsed in on itself, and maybe meddle a bit with anachronistic technology once I had settled in and learned the language. On that note I've always wanted to write (or maybe start a wiki on) a broad field-guide for people that have found themselves stuck somewhere without simple things like germ theory and the scientific method.

And Internet?

[Heliman]

I'd go back to a time way before the big bang and hope like hell that time is cyclical.

[Itnetlolor]

I'd go to the beginning of time and chill with God as he creates the Universe. Of course, I'd be visiting for about a week.

↓: Sounds like a Bible to me. History, instructions, stories of heroism and/or parables, songs, predicting the future... What if the Bible was a Wiki made long ago by those that got impulse knowledge? None of us were responsible for that, were we? It would make sense if the data would all end near the end of 2012. I mean, it would take awhile to compile all that data into a temporal knowledge bomb. Could spread across time from a point of contact; let's say within the era of King Solomon? Sounds like a job 4 people with the right mindset could do. Dedicate each to their respective fields. One for war (to prevent or guide; depending on perception), one for disease and pestilence records (to combat problems, and multiply our numbers), one for death records (for historical records), and one other for today's famine (economy). The Four Horsemen (of our Apocalypse) sounds like a badass title.

In a sense, it would make sense if we divide the files so it could be received by at least 4 people (be they scribes or prophets) with a sufficient mindset to receive and write down all the information and recompile it into a single book (or at least an encyclopedic set of scrolls). A good place to preserve the information as it updates through time could be somewhere in the Dead Sea region. Has the right preservative qualities to last millennia. Sounds like I have made ourselves a stable time loop. However, temporal data bombs tend to have a negative side-effect of producing crackpots if they're within the blast radius; especially if they weren't intended to receive the data.

It would probably also help not to include TVTropes, DeviantArt, SCP Foundation, 4Chan, and some other sites (art or wiki (including a number of wikis for today's games)). It could give some of our receivers some hard (and utterly terrifying) trip-outs upon reception, and make them think they're seeing angels or demons.

[Eagleon]

And Internet?

My thought was that the wiki could eventually be condensed into the book, which could pay for the wiki's hosting The irony hadn't escaped me.

[Grek]

Five years back with stock market info and a plan for getting hyper-rich in a nonsuspicious way. Then I start funding time machine research in order to ensure a stable loop for myself.

[GlyphGryph]

Dinosaur times, yo. Mess the fuck out of those historians, if possible. Also, gonna tame a dinosaur.

[lordcooper]

1960s

[Grimshot]

 I would go back to when the roman empire fell apart and try to carve out my own empire using the knowledge I have. I'm not sure how I would get a stable time loop going on that though.

[rutsber]

Assuming time travel to the past is possible, and wouldn't break the laws of physics, I would go to the 1940s. Then I could join the CIA and pilot an SR-71. That or just tell Kennedy to make peace with Nikov and not get us into this debt problem by putting so much into our military. 

[lemon10]

Any period within the last 20 years for a few months (presuming i get to research it first), first I would win a massive lottery and with the initial payment (which would be a couple of million dollars), and make a series of stock market investments and sports bets and make TONS of money very rapidly, I probably wouldn't have all that much trouble getting a multi-billion dollar return.
Just before I return I would put the money into various things that I know would gain or not lose value by the time I get back to where I started from, and have a trust give me the money after I get back.
Sure, having a talk with a famous historical figure would be neat and fulfilling, but after I return to the present I would regret not making the oodles of money that I could easily make.
Scratch that, the question wasn't what I thought it was, instead of "if you got to go back in time what would you do", its "what time period would you prefer to be born in."

Some remote island paradise somewhere that doesn't get raided, or have any wars in my lifetime, since I am basically guaranteed not to be a miserable serf for my entire life (unlike basically every other time period and most countries).

[Strife26]

World War II.