If you could time travel, what would you change ?

Bad idea. Last time someone did this we ended up with this timeline.

I would go back in time and meet the people who wrote the first ever USB standard. Then I would convince them that all USB connectors have to be reversible from day one so that nobody will ever need to struggle with the 20/80 odds of getting it right on the first try. Come on, it’s two possibilities and the probability of the wrong one is at least 80%. What’s the deal with a connector like that?

I'd stop the guy who went back in time to stop the first guy from smoking stuff.

Go back to 1911 and convince Taft to concede the Republican nomination to Roosevelt. That allows Roosevelt to stomp Wilson, get the US into the war before Russia left, and get the war over with years earlier.

This prevents both Stalin and Hitler from rising to power, and prevents most of the European theater of WW2, as well as a host of other knock-on effects.

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Stop that kid from falling into Harambe’s enclosure by any means necessary.

I'd like to say something noble like warn Amelia Earhart, or hookup Adolph with some Bob Ross videos. But if I'm being honest, I would probably be selfish. I would tell past me to not fuck up quite a few things that past me royally fucked up.

I'd go back and convince that art school to accept a certain art student...

As we learned from the Butterfly Effect, changing the past only results in Ashton Kutcher getting more power.

My net worth.

I'd have Al Gore win.

Save the gorilla, save the world

I would've gone to bed earlier tonight

Warn about how plastic (especially single-use) is a major pollutant, with microplastics managing to get into our organs with long term consequences we are yet to grasp.

It did push our technology and way of living forward, but at what cost?

I would make sure my parents never met.

i would not eat the kiosk chili dogs i ate earlier—they were pretty fucking bad.

I'd go hunt down Ronald Regan at about age 30 and empty an entire magazine of .45s into his dome while he slept.

I'd go back and write a book with just enough truths to cement myself as a soothsayer. I'd then warn of wars, eco disasters, pandemics, natural disasters. Then I'd invest some money in some good places and make sure it made it to my kids after I'm gone.

I'd find the first motherfucker that started smoking stuff, whether it was first tobacco or whatever, and get rid of him/her before anyone else ever learned of the practice/habit.

Would have been better health for countless people afterwards, if simply nobody ever knew..

I would try to save the roman republic and prevent the roman kindgom. It would also be interesting to see what would have happend if they never switched to christianity.

I think saving JFK would really alter the timeline. I doubt Nixon would have ever been president.

Preventing the Iranian hostage crisis might also have had a huge impact.

I would prevent Lewis Powell from authoring the document that outlined how to capture the courts and put us under the control of unelected judges.

I think I finally met the love of my life, I don't think I'd want to risk changing anything

I'd tell my younger self what to invest in.

A lot of things I didn't mean to, most likely.

I would try to prevent the Holocaust from happening.

Get rid of Ronald Reagan.

I prefer to rewind time with me along, be young again, that kind of time travel. Of course with my knowledge and memories of up to before my "time travel", be retained. I could only remember what I could any way. The future would surely not happen exactly as the same before. Live a new younger life, a seemingly fresh restart at an early point in my life.

I guess I would try to warn people that the tsunami was coming.

i would find the first guy that started smoking stuff and congratulate them for inventing fire

Well that first guy smoking stuff will have enough to deal with so probably something else.

I'd invent the printing press during the classical era and watch what happens from there. I guess the folks at Carthage would also enjoy knowing about paper making, better wind-powered sails for ships and to be on the lookout for those "Romanes"

There would be a rather catastrophic malfunction of a certain golden escalator in 2015.

Changes could have so many repercussions even well meaning actions could make things worse. The safer bet would be to collect lost books and art.

That said, stopping the Lincoln assassination is tempting. I'd hope to change reconstruction to better wipe out the confederacy, prevent lost cause doctrine, and better integrate former slaves into full citizenship and society.

I would try to match Genghis Khan up with a proper dad.

That first guy smoking stuff is gonna get rekt

I'd find the guy who became the first guy to smoke stuff after the original first guy got stopped.

Bring back Sodium batteries and how to make them as well as solar panel production. Probably to Nikola Tesla.

To be a bit more precise whatever the easiest to produce versions of each are not the best ones so they could actually be produced at the tech level at the time.

I'm sure they would still end up creating equivalents of oil Barons etc. but at least it would be based on a cleaner tech and more able to improve from there.

I would get a bunch of party hats in RuneScape.

time to kick that fish back into the water where it belonged. Stay in your lane, ancient precursor animals.

Nothing just incase.

Depends on time travel method and how would it affect reality (would it create a new timeline or replace the one we currently live in?).

As I wouldn't like to change something and go fully dystopian when I return to present, I just go back and buy 1 million bitcoins, then return to present and influence present things just using big amounts of money.

Maybe go back in time and punch my dad in the balls about 9 months before I was born.

Then all that would remain of me would be a weird story where my dad got socked in the nuts by a ghost that looked just like him.

My dad meeting my mom. Lol

Well, I don't think anyone is really sure just how exactly time travel can mess with stuff. I would probably take a page from some time travel movie I saw. I would want to avoid any sort of temporal paradox and avoid too many changes.

So, I would probably remove myself from the equation as much as possible. Go to a hotel or somewhere where I can avoid accidentally running into anyone I might know. Leave all electronics behind, but take a book or something. Spend the whole day avoiding TV/News/People and just reading or work on perfecting a skill. At the end of the day I would call up a broker from the hotel room and find out which stock had the greatest percentage gain that day. Just enough information for one good trade.

Then I would go back to that morning, buy up a ton of that stock, live out life normally, then sell the stock at the end of the day.

Rinse and repeat for a short time.

I would absolutely avoid something like winning the lottery, but for those of you who would use time travel to win the lottery, you might want to follow the advice from this comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_happiest_5word_sentence_you_could_hear/chb38xf/

My own birth, I guess.

I'd tell my younger self to stop fuckin carving "Operator symbols" into furniture. And also to get into playing minecraft...

Have you learned nothing from science fiction stories? I would not change anything.

I would install an automated missile system on every single would be colonizer country's waters, that would sink their ships when they tried to leave port