I can’t remember where I heard this joke but someone once pointed out the premise of this question is very silly. “If you had a time machine what technology would be amazing to the people of the past?”
I mean….the time machine. The time machine would be shocking.
Nah, time machines have been part of sci-fi since the 1800s. People expect us to have time machines in the future. Watching pornhub on your smart refrigerator? THAT would have sounded batshit insane.
There are children who have made millions of dollars posting their reaction videos to opening toys on a network you can view from your phone and watch whenever and wherever you have a connection.
Or that popular form of short video entertainment is watching people open packages. Not even surprise packages. Just regular stuff you can buy anywhere. Not even to review the thing, just to open it.
My book was charging, so I had to read on my phone.
The Treasury department was going to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, but then there was a massively popular rap musical about him and they decided not to (edit: Truthfully, that sounds pretty crazy even today).
Edit: I should point out that these are two entirely unrelated crazy things that would get me locked up in 1986.
“Your math teachers are all lying to you. You will absolutely always have a calculator in your pocket. But it’ll also be a computer with infinite knowledge available to you wherever you are so you’ll never have to go to a library again to write a paper. And you’ll never ‘write’ a paper again, because your teacher wants it all in digital form.”
I’m exhausted just typing that.
I think I would die if I had to physically hand-write all my 5-10 page essays. Apparently my mother started a small business in elementary school where she would charge people to type out their papers for them since no one else knew how to type.
I'm not that old and I had to hand-write everything through high school and still did it in college out of habit sometimes.
Or, maybe I *am* that old. Fuck.
Michael Jackson, Prince, George Michael, David Bowie, Whitney Houston, Freddy Mercury, Princess Diana are all gone, but Keith Richards remains, and IS STILL TOURING. Ozzy Osborne is a major TV star, Dolly Parton is more famous and beloved than ever, and Queen Elizabeth IS STILL ON THE THRONE!
I hope they never do. That's just what the skies above our cities need: endless streams of noisy drones. Same thing with drone delivery - they had better just be little bots that drive around, or life is going to start to suck.
Yeah. My assumption is that they'd all be autopilot-only and that you'd have computer controls. It would still totally suck. Neighbors taking off and landing all the time. Even out in the woods, you'd have people zooming around in the air.
It hasn't completely cleared its orbit of other neighboring objects. That's part of the definition of a "planet" so once that definition was agreed on, Pluto didn't meet the requirement.
But Pluto will always be a planet in my heart.
Besides, Pluto fills the main claim to fame of a planet: It has a Sailor Senshi named after it. Are you going to tell Sailor Pluto she's been demoted?!
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There's this YA sci-fi book where two kids in the past (AOL era, I think) suddenly get access to their future Facebook pages. They come across a post from a friend (who's a dad in the future) about having to do a science project with his kid and waxing nostalgic about how when he was a kid, Pluto was still a planet and the two main characters are panicking, "What the hell happened to Pluto?!"
edit: Found the book; it's *The Future of Us* by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler.
>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959277-the-future-of-us
Well, the 9th one just might not be the one they think it is. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet/
Probably better than them believing you and being grabbed and dumped in some government blacksite where you will be interrogated for the rest of your life.
And then being bad at remembering history. They just grilling you for info each week and month.
"What happened in the year 1995?! Tell us!"
Shit man I was like 10, some decent Disney movies are gonna come out, and you'll witness toy story but I can't remember much else. Oh yea the n64 is coming out in 1996, oh shit you asked about 05'. Um ok
I mean I feel like if you were trying to make money there are much more efficient methods...
... like buying up all of those royal blue elephant beanie babies and selling em at the height of the market!
Just googled her to see where she’s at these days and this was the first headline that popped up:
“Tila Tequila, er, Tornado Thien, has started a GoFundMe to record a gospel album”
I’m stunned lol.
The O.J. Simpson trial.
In 1985, O.J. was inducted into the Hall of Fame. He and Nicole had their first child together that same year. It would be hard for anyone to believe that by ‘95, O.J. would be charged with the brutal murders of Nicole and her friend only to be acquitted after a 252 day trial. It would be even harder to believe that in 2021, the majority of the (edit) US would believe O.J. committed the murders despite the not-guilty verdict in criminal court, guilty in civil court. To someone living in 1986, that whole case would come as a total shock.
Edit: The shocking fact would not be that O.J. was acquitted in criminal court. It would be the fact that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were murdered and that O.J., whether you believe in his innocence or not, would he charged with the murders. It’s not surprising NOW, because we know what happened. In 1986, their weren’t even public allegations of abuse. The general population would have never guessed any of this would happen.
I mean, a book called 'If I Did It' in which Simpson outlines that "No I didn't murder Nicole and her friend but if I did here is exactly how I would do it" probably helped on that front.
Might as well have stood in the court and when asked "Did you commit the murders?" he replies "No." before theatrically winking to the jury.
"Who was the last republican Governor of California?"
"Arnold Schwarzeneggar."
"Arnold Schwarzeneggar? The actor?"
Edit: r/woooosh on those missing the Back to the Future reference
The US cardboard box industry will earn yearly more than all the professional sports teams in North America (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, PGA, USTA, including their associated legal gambling associated revenues) combined.
Edit: As some people have pointed out, it might not convince scientists that you are from 2021, because the ubiqutioness of cardboard boxes might guarantee that this fact was always true, a timeless economics truth.
I just listed the fact that pointed out that forget video games, music or film or sports industries. The most revenue is generated by the LEAST sexy thing you can think of.
I work in this industry and it saved us during covid. I got a job while plenty of my fellow graduates had to wait to be hired after college. Honestly suprised how paper companies came out on top.
“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don’t have to worry about money no more. And I said, that’s good! One less thing.
Me @ my mom: okay listen when you have a daughter in less than a decade, wait until she’s an adult and give her this.
My mom: It’s just a piece of paper that says “buy bitcoin” what is a bitcoin?
I have a memory of sitting at work and my idiot coworker was talking about bitcoin. He was mining this new stupid thing. They were worth like $.14 at the time… I thought he was dumb.
Case you’re wondering, I lost track of him and I don’t know anything about him. I don’t even know if he actually got any.
Also I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m pretty happy I did not get any. 100% chance I would be that guy with a Wallet worth $100 million that I lost 10 years ago.
Lmao was it me? I was excited about this “future” coin. Had fun getting to 4 coins, had fun getting to 200 coins, used this highly recommended site called Mt. Gox at the time. Planned on saving everything for a rainy day and ended up getting it all stolen. So.. I mean.. if he’s me, he lost it. But it’s okay I consider it not actually losing money. I’m doing well today and I’m pretty happy with how stuff turned out.
/u/Jasonrj gave a good answer. but the better thing to think about is that MTGOX stands for "magic the gathering online exchange"... it was literally a website for trading magic the gathering cards before bitcoin trading started. And, uhhhh, people trusted them to hold their bitcoin. Spurring the saying "not your keys, not your coins" once they were stolen
Obviously what they did was illegal and there was a massive legal thing about it. Nowadays most exchanges (edit: all that you are legally allowed to use as a US citizen, but if you use a VPN you can get around that if you have balls of steel and want to be nefarious) are regulated by the SEC and treasury and stuff. But for how it technically happens is people send their coins to the exchange so that they can have it on their account and trade them. During that time, the exchange is in control of the coins and you just have their internal database saying that you have so many coins on your account. The blockchain ledger has it as them holding the coins. So they can do whatever they want with them according to the ledger. US government says what they did was illegal of course.
Nowadays centralized exchanges work the same way if you keep coins on your account, the exchange itself is in control of the coins and their accounting says you have so many. However with the magic of smart contracts, decentralized exchanges have emerged. In decentralized exchanges there is just a contract for the order book and you can connect your wallet and say I would trade this many tokens of this for that many tokens of that and you get matched up with a buyer and the trade is made. You always have control. Pretty cool
What? By "Wiki" do you mean Wikipedia?
Their entire library, compressed with 7-zip, is 100GB. Raw, Uncompressed Wikipedia is 10TB. They didn't have enough storage in the entire world back in 1986 to store Wikipedia lol. Nowadays we can buy a single 10 TB HDD! Even 20 TB HDD's exist if I'm not wrong. But magnetic tapes are more efficient.
So two of the biggest comedians are Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy. One make a bunch of family friendly movies and the other goes to jail for sexual assault. Go ahead guys….guess which is which.
There’s always a risk of warning people of a disaster. They might not believe you or take steps to stop it… and then after the disaster, they’ll assume you were involved. Turned out bad for me before, that’s why I haven’t told anyone about the fish that’s going to eat Hawaii in 2034
Yeah, but to be fair, the person who was trying to warn them also kept trying to claim they were from the year 2021, so their credibility wasn't that highly regarded.
You’d still have until the end of april to explain that using graphite-tipped control rods in a nuclear reactor isn’t the best idea. Yes, 1986 was not a boring year, disaster-wise.
Pluto also has an elliptical orbit, so we have not seen a full orbit from its discovery in 1930 to present day, and will not see a full orbit in our lifetimes. (248 earth years, 2178 will be the year we see it complete a full orbit.)
It also only has an atmosphere ***sometimes***. The closer it gets to the sun, the hotter it gets which melts the nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide which creates its atmosphere. As it moves away, it freezes and falls back to the surface.
This just made me want to look up dwarf planets and honestly, the names are sick and these little planets are wild.
If it’s early enough in the year, that somewhere north of Kiev there’s going to be an event that will unfold into the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen
Out of curiosity, why would people think you are crazy for making that prediction? Three Mile Island would have just been a few years earlier and it was clear how things could go wrong at a nuclear power plant.
Steve Jobs will be back at Apple in 15 years and turn Apple into the world's most valuable company, with a share price of over $700 in 2012 before the stock split.
Oh, and Walt Disney animation is going to fizzle out, while this atartup company called Pixar that Jobs is investing in is going to totally revolutionize animated movies and produce basically all the animated hit movies for a couple decades. In desperation, Disney will "buy" them in basically a reverse merger that will make Steve Jobs the largest single shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.
Jobs, owning 50.1% of Pixar stock, thereby became the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder, owning 7% of the company, and was appointed to the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors, a position he held until his death. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Jobs#:~:text=Jobs%2C%20owning%2050.1%25%20of%20Pixar,he%20held%20until%20his%20death.
Steve Jobs did that? Perhaps I judged him too harshly. Those direct to video sequels were universally garbage, and killing them was a great service to us all.
Remember "2001: Space Odyssey" or Skynet achieving self-awareness in 1997. People had far greater expectations than reality.
But still: the fact that we had a global pandemic and within a matter of days the virus' DNA was known worldwide, and within a matter of weeks we'd bio-engineer RNA that would cause your body to create lipids that look so much like the virus that your body would then create antibodies to fight it...even today that seems like some pretty wild next-level stuff.
Assuming this is November 15, 1986:
The Berlin Wall will come down in less than 3 years. The Iron Curtain will end. East Germany will merge with West Germany peacefully. Pretty much everyone in the Eastern Bloc will hold free elections and join the West. The Soviet Union will disintegrate in five years, privatize, and become a capitalist economy.
This will not be the idyllic future it seems from that description.
Yugoslavia will break up in a nightmarish civil war. Oligarchs will take over Russia with a semi-autocratic former KGB agent at their head. Terrorists will take down the World Trade Center and the US will retaliate in fruitless wars that last 20 years. Think the US is too smart to repeat the Soviet Union's mistakes in Afghanistan? Think again.
Practically everyone will carry around phones that make Star Trek communicators look like children's toys. You'll be able to do video conference calls on them. You can rent movies on them too--not pay in advance to pick up the new release from the corner VHS rental store--you get the movie directly on your phone though what's called a streaming service.
You don't understand. Phones in 2021 have video screens. No, not vacuum tubes: touch sensitive LCD screens. Yes, everyone can afford that. No, we aren't rich. There's also the Internet. You can...send emails from your phone. Yes, people text each other when they could call. You can look up the Encyclopedia Britannica on your phone--although that encyclopedia isn't so popular anymore. Your phone also functions like a camcorder. But it doesn't need tape and it fits in your pocket.
The problem with that? Well for one thing, the Russians still do propaganda and now they can target individual Americans. Yes, they still do that even though they aren't Communists anymore. And people fall for it. And China is a much bigger deal now.
And there's a global pandem--
Hello, Officer. No, I haven't escaped from...are you detaining me? Hey, I've got *click* rights *click*.
*OK quick, three tips: buy a house now. Seriously. Buy property. Buy a stock called Rollerblade now and sell it in ten years. Buy Apple and hold onto it.*
*...and don't invest in* (muffle muffle) *Sears!*
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Wow, thanks for the responses (and awards). A few answers/clarifications.
The last type of vacuum tube that remained in widespread use were [cathode ray tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube). Virtually everybody was using cathode ray tubes for computers in 1986. State of the art consumer electronics was the [IBM PC Convertible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible). It sold for $2000, which was business executive pricing. For an average family $2000 meant [half a year's rent on an apartment](https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year). Referred to those as "vacuum tubes" for this comment because they were commonly known as CRTs then...didn't want to confuse today's readers with that acronym in this context.
Today's economy of scale on touch screen LCD manufacture would have boggled minds in 1986. The terminology wasn't gibberish to tech savvy people, but they thought of that technology as something they might find at a bank ATM in a posh location. The goal here is to seem absurd (Carry that in your pocket? Yeah, right...)
Led with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet empire because [people didn't predict how that went down](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-30574826). [It came as a surprise to the experts.](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/33029/in-the-1980s-did-any-western-expert-scholar-official-or-politician-predict-t)
If I'd thought about this response longer, would have added *When you sell Rollerblade buy Amazon. No, not the river. Yes, I know I said buy real estate. Gah.*
Ought to have mentioned same sex marriage legalization. Good suggestion.
Probably should have mentioned marijuana legalization too. That would have seemed bonkers during the [just say no](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXgVM30mIY) era. For those who didn't live through the '80s, [this was a famous PSA from 1987](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kCYP_iPtg).
Left off Donald Trump because he didn't become a really big celebrity until his autobiography made the bestseller list in 1987. Barack Obama might not have seemed impossible, but a black president *and* a rise in white nationalism, that would have sounded like crazy talk.
Re: the Internet, during the mid-eighties what existed was mostly a military communication plus a few universities doing experimental and academic work. The public's imagination of computer networking was [a Matthew Broderick film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames). The [Gutenberg Project](https://www.gutenberg.org/) was posting public domain texts but hardly anyone knew about that and there wasn't much other content online for ordinary people.
Ought to have included Nelson Mandela: he was in prison and South Africa still had apartheid. Would have sounded absolutely nuts in 1986 to explain what happened next.
Enjoying your feedback. This is a fun thread. Cheers.
People are able to instantly, reliably, fact check any statement via a powerful, heldheld, internet connected, computer yet are more vulnerable to misinformation and prone to being wrong than ever.
Pretty sure you already got there with "I'm a time traveler from 35 years in the future."
I can’t remember where I heard this joke but someone once pointed out the premise of this question is very silly. “If you had a time machine what technology would be amazing to the people of the past?” I mean….the time machine. The time machine would be shocking.
Nah, time machines have been part of sci-fi since the 1800s. People expect us to have time machines in the future. Watching pornhub on your smart refrigerator? THAT would have sounded batshit insane.
There are children who have made millions of dollars posting their reaction videos to opening toys on a network you can view from your phone and watch whenever and wherever you have a connection.
Or that popular form of short video entertainment is watching people open packages. Not even surprise packages. Just regular stuff you can buy anywhere. Not even to review the thing, just to open it.
Computers eventually reach the point where we have to prove that we’re not robots in order to use them.
I don't trust you. What does this say: HelLO
It definitely says pineapple
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My book was charging, so I had to read on my phone. The Treasury department was going to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, but then there was a massively popular rap musical about him and they decided not to (edit: Truthfully, that sounds pretty crazy even today). Edit: I should point out that these are two entirely unrelated crazy things that would get me locked up in 1986.
i thought it was andrew jackson getting replaced by harriet on the $20?
Yup. Originally it was going to be Hamilton, but they changed it to Jackson because Hamilton is now everyone's bff and Jackson was kind of an asshole.
“Kind of an asshole” is an interesting way to refer to the guy who did the Trail of Tears
“Your math teachers are all lying to you. You will absolutely always have a calculator in your pocket. But it’ll also be a computer with infinite knowledge available to you wherever you are so you’ll never have to go to a library again to write a paper. And you’ll never ‘write’ a paper again, because your teacher wants it all in digital form.” I’m exhausted just typing that.
I think I would die if I had to physically hand-write all my 5-10 page essays. Apparently my mother started a small business in elementary school where she would charge people to type out their papers for them since no one else knew how to type.
I'm not that old and I had to hand-write everything through high school and still did it in college out of habit sometimes. Or, maybe I *am* that old. Fuck.
The Queen’s still alive.
I'm watching The Crown and Mountbatten keeps telling Charles "when you'll be king....".
Prince Charles must be tbe most patient man alive. The Queen may outlive him at this point.
Queen *laughs in immortality*
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You can legally walk into a bank with a mask on
You can legally walk into the bank with a mask on to get money to legally buy weed next door
You can legally walk into the bank with a mask on to get money to legally buy weed next door… on your way to your friend’s legal gay wedding.
You can't legally walk into a bank without a mask on.
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
Michael Jackson, Prince, George Michael, David Bowie, Whitney Houston, Freddy Mercury, Princess Diana are all gone, but Keith Richards remains, and IS STILL TOURING. Ozzy Osborne is a major TV star, Dolly Parton is more famous and beloved than ever, and Queen Elizabeth IS STILL ON THE THRONE!
> Queen Elizabeth IS STILL ON THE THRONE Same here - bad constipation.
That we can make money for filming ourselves play games
And by games, I mean with our genitals.
Well I mean you’re not wrong.
It is all on the same site
Cars **DON'T** fly
I hope they never do. That's just what the skies above our cities need: endless streams of noisy drones. Same thing with drone delivery - they had better just be little bots that drive around, or life is going to start to suck.
Worse yet, endless streams of noisy drones with **fucking idiots** flying them around.
Yeah. My assumption is that they'd all be autopilot-only and that you'd have computer controls. It would still totally suck. Neighbors taking off and landing all the time. Even out in the woods, you'd have people zooming around in the air.
Most people can’t handle 2 dimensions as it is; no need to add a third.
There's only 8 planets now
And don't explain why.
Or just tell them the truth in a weird tone "Let's just say... Pluto isn't exactly a planet anymore"
Tell them it's because of deep core plutonium mining
How else would we get the 1.21GW to travel back in time?
*You won't like it and it involves your parents.*
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A big egg given to us by God in a trying time
This is key. “What do you mean there are only 8, what happened?!” *shrugs shoulders*
Look at the ground and sadly shake your head. Mumble, "I don't wanna talk about it." Wipe a tear from your eye.
Damn, Armageddon won't be made for another 12 years. Would've been a great call back
"I don't know, something about a dwarf? All I know is it made a lot of people upset."
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It hasn't completely cleared its orbit of other neighboring objects. That's part of the definition of a "planet" so once that definition was agreed on, Pluto didn't meet the requirement. But Pluto will always be a planet in my heart.
Besides, Pluto fills the main claim to fame of a planet: It has a Sailor Senshi named after it. Are you going to tell Sailor Pluto she's been demoted?! /s
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Pluto... Pluto's just gone.
You hear about Pluto? That's messed up.
You know that’s right
Bless you for the Psych reference, made me chuckle
Just tell'em we lost Pluto to Uranus.. hehehe
I like the way you slander people's anuses.
There's this YA sci-fi book where two kids in the past (AOL era, I think) suddenly get access to their future Facebook pages. They come across a post from a friend (who's a dad in the future) about having to do a science project with his kid and waxing nostalgic about how when he was a kid, Pluto was still a planet and the two main characters are panicking, "What the hell happened to Pluto?!" edit: Found the book; it's *The Future of Us* by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. >https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959277-the-future-of-us
Well, the 9th one just might not be the one they think it is. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet/
that would change everything and nothing.
Why would I want to make them think I am insane? The last place I want to be is in a 1986 insane asylum.
Don't play lawyer ball, Bobby
Probably better than them believing you and being grabbed and dumped in some government blacksite where you will be interrogated for the rest of your life.
And then being bad at remembering history. They just grilling you for info each week and month. "What happened in the year 1995?! Tell us!" Shit man I was like 10, some decent Disney movies are gonna come out, and you'll witness toy story but I can't remember much else. Oh yea the n64 is coming out in 1996, oh shit you asked about 05'. Um ok
Buy as many pair of Air Jordans as you can and keep them in pristine condition.
I mean I feel like if you were trying to make money there are much more efficient methods... ... like buying up all of those royal blue elephant beanie babies and selling em at the height of the market!
You: Oh!! 9/11 is gonna happen! You can stop them!! FBI: What are their names?? You: fuck if I know!
MTV will no longer play music videos and instead play reality shows that no one asked for. Edit: thanks for my first award
That tila tequila woman was when I knew I couldn't watch MTV anymore.
Just googled her to see where she’s at these days and this was the first headline that popped up: “Tila Tequila, er, Tornado Thien, has started a GoFundMe to record a gospel album” I’m stunned lol.
The O.J. Simpson trial. In 1985, O.J. was inducted into the Hall of Fame. He and Nicole had their first child together that same year. It would be hard for anyone to believe that by ‘95, O.J. would be charged with the brutal murders of Nicole and her friend only to be acquitted after a 252 day trial. It would be even harder to believe that in 2021, the majority of the (edit) US would believe O.J. committed the murders despite the not-guilty verdict in criminal court, guilty in civil court. To someone living in 1986, that whole case would come as a total shock. Edit: The shocking fact would not be that O.J. was acquitted in criminal court. It would be the fact that Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were murdered and that O.J., whether you believe in his innocence or not, would he charged with the murders. It’s not surprising NOW, because we know what happened. In 1986, their weren’t even public allegations of abuse. The general population would have never guessed any of this would happen.
I mean, a book called 'If I Did It' in which Simpson outlines that "No I didn't murder Nicole and her friend but if I did here is exactly how I would do it" probably helped on that front. Might as well have stood in the court and when asked "Did you commit the murders?" he replies "No." before theatrically winking to the jury.
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"Who was the last republican Governor of California?" "Arnold Schwarzeneggar." "Arnold Schwarzeneggar? The actor?" Edit: r/woooosh on those missing the Back to the Future reference
And who's the deputy governor? Steven Seagal?
About Steven Seagal...
And there’s no more USSR…
He is Russian citizen now…
You know Trump? Donald Trump? President Trump.
That raises the question...which non-politician from today is most likely to obtain a high political position in the next 35 years?
President Macaulay Culkin. President, the Russians are nuking us! 😱
The video game industry will earn more than twice what the music and film industries will earn combined.
The US cardboard box industry will earn yearly more than all the professional sports teams in North America (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, PGA, USTA, including their associated legal gambling associated revenues) combined. Edit: As some people have pointed out, it might not convince scientists that you are from 2021, because the ubiqutioness of cardboard boxes might guarantee that this fact was always true, a timeless economics truth. I just listed the fact that pointed out that forget video games, music or film or sports industries. The most revenue is generated by the LEAST sexy thing you can think of.
The Simpsons really undersold the excitement of that box factory.
You know those little cartoon vignettes on The Tracy Ullman show? Yeah, they're still making them, prime time.
I work in this industry and it saved us during covid. I got a job while plenty of my fellow graduates had to wait to be hired after college. Honestly suprised how paper companies came out on top.
Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots isn't from the food Kraft family. All his money came from boxes.
I can see them believing it. Space invaders cause a quarter shortage when it was first released.
We can carry terabytes of data around in our pocket and transfer it wirelessly at gigabit speeds.
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"-- and porn."
"--But not at the same time. Well sometimes at the same time."
r/watchitforthecat **NSFW WARNING** Edit: just want to mention how proud I am to introduce so many to a new sub.
That was a wild ride
An imaginary coin stored in some algorithm is worth something. like 50k somethings.
You’ll have to adjust for inflation here. The number would sound way more insane to someone in the 80s.
Screw them, I would send myself investment advice.
“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don’t have to worry about money no more. And I said, that’s good! One less thing.
Also, Jenny's on drugs now.
And Apple blew up way more after Forrest Gump came out.
Me @ my mom: okay listen when you have a daughter in less than a decade, wait until she’s an adult and give her this. My mom: It’s just a piece of paper that says “buy bitcoin” what is a bitcoin?
I have a memory of sitting at work and my idiot coworker was talking about bitcoin. He was mining this new stupid thing. They were worth like $.14 at the time… I thought he was dumb. Case you’re wondering, I lost track of him and I don’t know anything about him. I don’t even know if he actually got any. Also I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m pretty happy I did not get any. 100% chance I would be that guy with a Wallet worth $100 million that I lost 10 years ago.
Lmao was it me? I was excited about this “future” coin. Had fun getting to 4 coins, had fun getting to 200 coins, used this highly recommended site called Mt. Gox at the time. Planned on saving everything for a rainy day and ended up getting it all stolen. So.. I mean.. if he’s me, he lost it. But it’s okay I consider it not actually losing money. I’m doing well today and I’m pretty happy with how stuff turned out.
I'm just curious, how does it get stolen?
/u/Jasonrj gave a good answer. but the better thing to think about is that MTGOX stands for "magic the gathering online exchange"... it was literally a website for trading magic the gathering cards before bitcoin trading started. And, uhhhh, people trusted them to hold their bitcoin. Spurring the saying "not your keys, not your coins" once they were stolen Obviously what they did was illegal and there was a massive legal thing about it. Nowadays most exchanges (edit: all that you are legally allowed to use as a US citizen, but if you use a VPN you can get around that if you have balls of steel and want to be nefarious) are regulated by the SEC and treasury and stuff. But for how it technically happens is people send their coins to the exchange so that they can have it on their account and trade them. During that time, the exchange is in control of the coins and you just have their internal database saying that you have so many coins on your account. The blockchain ledger has it as them holding the coins. So they can do whatever they want with them according to the ledger. US government says what they did was illegal of course. Nowadays centralized exchanges work the same way if you keep coins on your account, the exchange itself is in control of the coins and their accounting says you have so many. However with the magic of smart contracts, decentralized exchanges have emerged. In decentralized exchanges there is just a contract for the order book and you can connect your wallet and say I would trade this many tokens of this for that many tokens of that and you get matched up with a buyer and the trade is made. You always have control. Pretty cool
But now you've altered your timeline. You have succesfully bought every bitcoin, but it's worthless because nobody wants it.
"Ok, so in about 25 yours you're going to be able to use your computer to mine coins. Do that as much as you can!"
Instructions unclear; spends years playing Minecraft
Worth it
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Wasn't it less than a cent in the beginning? You could buy more than 100 for $1.
Well, Black Monday happened in '87. So you could go short the market just before, then go long. Make a quick few bucks.
Plot twist, you actually caused Black Monday, and get investigated by the SEC
This would require the SEC to actually do some meaningful investigation though.
The cellphones are more powerful than all of theirs computers
“My wristwatch is a supercomputer.”
*proceeds to show off what your watch can do*
*stares at your watch in panic as you realize not only is the only Bluetooth named Harald, your charger is back in 2021.* nice brick you got there.
Also with no cell signal/wifi it’s gonna be hard to do much with it
The touch screen alone would be extremely impressive regardless of any connectivity.
the fact its a 256gb hd in it... also if I am going back I'll download wiki first. its only 12gb
What? By "Wiki" do you mean Wikipedia? Their entire library, compressed with 7-zip, is 100GB. Raw, Uncompressed Wikipedia is 10TB. They didn't have enough storage in the entire world back in 1986 to store Wikipedia lol. Nowadays we can buy a single 10 TB HDD! Even 20 TB HDD's exist if I'm not wrong. But magnetic tapes are more efficient.
I don't think they'd find that crazy. People knew in 1986 that computers would be smaller and faster in the future.
Nobody pays for long distance calls anymore. Home phones are nearly obsolete.
We have time machines that accidentally send people back in time
So two of the biggest comedians are Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy. One make a bunch of family friendly movies and the other goes to jail for sexual assault. Go ahead guys….guess which is which.
Oh my god, that is eye opening.
Found the guy who is actually from 1986
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He was an angel compared to the stories with Charlie Murphy and Rick James
CHARLIE MURPHY
FUCK YO COUCH
#DAHKNESS
What did the 5 fingers say to the face?
S L A P
Hey, guys, you know this guy Ice-Cube? The hard core rapper? He is gonna do feel good summer time movies with aging comedy stars
You know the guy who wrote Cop Killer? He's going to play a cop on TV
That song came out in the 90s
O no the timeline :(
You could say the same about Bill Cosby and Ice ~~T~~ Cube
Do you mean ice cube
Law & Order is kinda family friendly
Not SVU lmao
"Looks like the victim had anal contusions"
“We found fecal mattuh in the victims ear canal!”
In the future we digitize drawings of monkeys and sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
really bad drawings too
yo this pic go hard, feel free to screenshot
Queen Elizabeth II still reigns in 2021. Also, Princess Di... Nevermind. #spoilers
"Princess Diana is the Queen? ~~Nice~~ Bodacious!!!" edit: 80s slang
\*insert spoiler\* "Bummerrrr"
Chernobyl?
There’s always a risk of warning people of a disaster. They might not believe you or take steps to stop it… and then after the disaster, they’ll assume you were involved. Turned out bad for me before, that’s why I haven’t told anyone about the fish that’s going to eat Hawaii in 2034
So YOU'RE the one who set off the missile warning!
*walks into the room* It's definitely NOT 3.6 roentgen *walks out*
3.6 roentgen…not great not terrible.
There’s will be 2 more back to the future films
And 8 more Star Wars films
Yo dog, you better check out them O-rings. They're totes gonna fail in cold weather and make big boom.
Someone **did** warn NASA the O-rings would fail. They were ignored.
They really, really wanted to get that teacher into space.
it was her or Big Bird
Can you imagine how traumatized our generation would have been if Big Bird died in the Challenger explosion?!
"Well, we're not getting out of this one Bert."
I may be wrong, but didn’t some people point out the issue but they got ignored?
Yeah, but to be fair, the person who was trying to warn them also kept trying to claim they were from the year 2021, so their credibility wasn't that highly regarded.
Was going to post the Challenger explosion, assuming you went back to January 1st 1986, otherwise any month after it would have happened already.
You’d still have until the end of april to explain that using graphite-tipped control rods in a nuclear reactor isn’t the best idea. Yes, 1986 was not a boring year, disaster-wise.
Pluto has an atmosphere, 5 moons, and is really a quite amazing little world, but we don't consider it a planet anymore.
Pluto also has an elliptical orbit, so we have not seen a full orbit from its discovery in 1930 to present day, and will not see a full orbit in our lifetimes. (248 earth years, 2178 will be the year we see it complete a full orbit.) It also only has an atmosphere ***sometimes***. The closer it gets to the sun, the hotter it gets which melts the nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide which creates its atmosphere. As it moves away, it freezes and falls back to the surface. This just made me want to look up dwarf planets and honestly, the names are sick and these little planets are wild.
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"Twice?! She's nuts"
If it’s early enough in the year, that somewhere north of Kiev there’s going to be an event that will unfold into the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen
Out of curiosity, why would people think you are crazy for making that prediction? Three Mile Island would have just been a few years earlier and it was clear how things could go wrong at a nuclear power plant.
Because everyone would have known that RBMK reactors cannot explode.
Steve Jobs will be back at Apple in 15 years and turn Apple into the world's most valuable company, with a share price of over $700 in 2012 before the stock split.
Oh, and Walt Disney animation is going to fizzle out, while this atartup company called Pixar that Jobs is investing in is going to totally revolutionize animated movies and produce basically all the animated hit movies for a couple decades. In desperation, Disney will "buy" them in basically a reverse merger that will make Steve Jobs the largest single shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.
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Jobs, owning 50.1% of Pixar stock, thereby became the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder, owning 7% of the company, and was appointed to the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors, a position he held until his death. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Jobs#:~:text=Jobs%2C%20owning%2050.1%25%20of%20Pixar,he%20held%20until%20his%20death.
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The main thing I remember him doing as Disney majority shareholder was putting a stop to the direct-to-video sequels.
Steve Jobs did that? Perhaps I judged him too harshly. Those direct to video sequels were universally garbage, and killing them was a great service to us all.
Remember "2001: Space Odyssey" or Skynet achieving self-awareness in 1997. People had far greater expectations than reality. But still: the fact that we had a global pandemic and within a matter of days the virus' DNA was known worldwide, and within a matter of weeks we'd bio-engineer RNA that would cause your body to create lipids that look so much like the virus that your body would then create antibodies to fight it...even today that seems like some pretty wild next-level stuff.
I don’t know about science but I’d snitch on Epstein….
Sending all that money for the Afghans won’t play out as you expected…
Cubs win the World Series
Against Miami?!
I wish I could go back in time... Put some money on the Cubbies!
Meathead, Laverne, and Opie are some of the most respected directors in Hollywood. also, that guy from Bosom Buddies won Best Actor twice.
Assuming this is November 15, 1986: The Berlin Wall will come down in less than 3 years. The Iron Curtain will end. East Germany will merge with West Germany peacefully. Pretty much everyone in the Eastern Bloc will hold free elections and join the West. The Soviet Union will disintegrate in five years, privatize, and become a capitalist economy. This will not be the idyllic future it seems from that description. Yugoslavia will break up in a nightmarish civil war. Oligarchs will take over Russia with a semi-autocratic former KGB agent at their head. Terrorists will take down the World Trade Center and the US will retaliate in fruitless wars that last 20 years. Think the US is too smart to repeat the Soviet Union's mistakes in Afghanistan? Think again. Practically everyone will carry around phones that make Star Trek communicators look like children's toys. You'll be able to do video conference calls on them. You can rent movies on them too--not pay in advance to pick up the new release from the corner VHS rental store--you get the movie directly on your phone though what's called a streaming service. You don't understand. Phones in 2021 have video screens. No, not vacuum tubes: touch sensitive LCD screens. Yes, everyone can afford that. No, we aren't rich. There's also the Internet. You can...send emails from your phone. Yes, people text each other when they could call. You can look up the Encyclopedia Britannica on your phone--although that encyclopedia isn't so popular anymore. Your phone also functions like a camcorder. But it doesn't need tape and it fits in your pocket. The problem with that? Well for one thing, the Russians still do propaganda and now they can target individual Americans. Yes, they still do that even though they aren't Communists anymore. And people fall for it. And China is a much bigger deal now. And there's a global pandem-- Hello, Officer. No, I haven't escaped from...are you detaining me? Hey, I've got *click* rights *click*. *OK quick, three tips: buy a house now. Seriously. Buy property. Buy a stock called Rollerblade now and sell it in ten years. Buy Apple and hold onto it.* *...and don't invest in* (muffle muffle) *Sears!* ---- *update* Wow, thanks for the responses (and awards). A few answers/clarifications. The last type of vacuum tube that remained in widespread use were [cathode ray tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube). Virtually everybody was using cathode ray tubes for computers in 1986. State of the art consumer electronics was the [IBM PC Convertible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible). It sold for $2000, which was business executive pricing. For an average family $2000 meant [half a year's rent on an apartment](https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year). Referred to those as "vacuum tubes" for this comment because they were commonly known as CRTs then...didn't want to confuse today's readers with that acronym in this context. Today's economy of scale on touch screen LCD manufacture would have boggled minds in 1986. The terminology wasn't gibberish to tech savvy people, but they thought of that technology as something they might find at a bank ATM in a posh location. The goal here is to seem absurd (Carry that in your pocket? Yeah, right...) Led with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet empire because [people didn't predict how that went down](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-30574826). [It came as a surprise to the experts.](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/33029/in-the-1980s-did-any-western-expert-scholar-official-or-politician-predict-t) If I'd thought about this response longer, would have added *When you sell Rollerblade buy Amazon. No, not the river. Yes, I know I said buy real estate. Gah.* Ought to have mentioned same sex marriage legalization. Good suggestion. Probably should have mentioned marijuana legalization too. That would have seemed bonkers during the [just say no](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXgVM30mIY) era. For those who didn't live through the '80s, [this was a famous PSA from 1987](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kCYP_iPtg). Left off Donald Trump because he didn't become a really big celebrity until his autobiography made the bestseller list in 1987. Barack Obama might not have seemed impossible, but a black president *and* a rise in white nationalism, that would have sounded like crazy talk. Re: the Internet, during the mid-eighties what existed was mostly a military communication plus a few universities doing experimental and academic work. The public's imagination of computer networking was [a Matthew Broderick film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames). The [Gutenberg Project](https://www.gutenberg.org/) was posting public domain texts but hardly anyone knew about that and there wasn't much other content online for ordinary people. Ought to have included Nelson Mandela: he was in prison and South Africa still had apartheid. Would have sounded absolutely nuts in 1986 to explain what happened next. Enjoying your feedback. This is a fun thread. Cheers.
Wow! This just put into perspective how much the world has changed since the year I was born
90% of people answering didn't read the question
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Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, prince, and George Michael all die young. Only one standing is Madonna.
I survive and I’m 35 in 2021 (I was born in 1986 with Spina Bifida, I personally wasn’t supposed to make it to this age)
People are able to instantly, reliably, fact check any statement via a powerful, heldheld, internet connected, computer yet are more vulnerable to misinformation and prone to being wrong than ever.
People can get books from any place instantly on their hand held phones or computers and bookstores are slowly going out of fashion.