128

If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Bizarroland@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

169 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self's place.

Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago

An entire offline copy of Wikipedia up to Jan 1 2024 on a tablet. Having all the world events up to that date available to consult at my fingertips, I could use it in so many ways.

[-] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Don't forget a charger, otherwise you'll be screwed for awhile

[-] akatsukilevi@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

USB 1.1 was already around in 1999, USB 2.0 being released in 2001 with Mini-A/AB/B being available in 2001, and the standard Type-A as early as 1996.
Take one of those USB Type-A to USB-C and you're good enough until circa-2008 when USB-C starts to get around

[-] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

USB-C wasn't designed until 2014. So yeah you'll need a charging cable regardless

[-] akatsukilevi@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Even nowadays USB-C devices aren't the de-facto yet(specially true in 3rd world countries like mine), Mini-B and Micro-C are still fairly common(tho really limited compared to USB-C), so depending on the devices being taken, it might not be that much of a trouble

[-] brianorca@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

But the old USB chargers didn't have high speed charging (2+amps) until much later. Most cell phones can't charge effectively from the original 0.5A standard USB.

load more comments (3 replies)

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023

128 points (93.2% liked)

Asklemmy

43898 readers

1256 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS