ITT : If you had a time machine....
>inb4 bitcoin
I'd kill myself
i'd prevent my own birth
I'd prevent you from using your time machine
>>62049929
I'd snap the neck of the creator of [YOUR FAVORITE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGUE].
>>62049929
ETH followed by NEO
I'd stop Britain from intervening in WW1.
I would wish for three more wishes
I'd probably save all the old tech I had. nothing really of value but at least I wouldn't be wasting money on stuff now.
Attempt to convince Charles Babbage to continue his work on the analytical engine.
>>62049929
I would take 1000 256gb micro sd cards qith me and sell them to ibm for study 1m each
Can you imagine if you got to bring a computer back in time like 25 years? Even with a shitty laptop, you'd be a fucking god. You could start renting out harddrive space or computing time.
Or just become a zillionaire on the stock market, I guess.
Tell Bjarne Stroustrup to implement modules, concepts, language support for tagged unions, pattern matching, and precompiled type checked format strings; and to abandon compatibility with C.
>>62049936
same
>>62051404
What we needed from the start were variadic templates so none of the "let's overload bit shift operators" bullshit for I/O would ever need to happen. Imagine a type-safe printf() from the get-go.
>>62049929
I'd travel back to the party with Lucy and tell my younger self to man up and just ask her out, instead of just kicking her in the head from the outside of the tent hoping that it would also impress her
>>62049929
Travel back to the 1940s and take the name George Orwell under which I would publish a book named 1984 to warn people about the future botnet
>>62049929
I'd prevent european union creation.
>>62051624
Wow so all the way back in time to when you were 15 in 2016?
I'd go back 1 minute then go back a minute again with past me. Repeat until bored, then start an empire.
>>62052218
2015 bro, 2015. Never forget.
She was the most beautiful girl in our school year. And all I could think to do to woo her was to anonymously kick her in the head through the fabric of the tent from the outside.
>>62051852
Why not just travel back and bang Steve jobs' mum so Steve would never be born, saving the world from the Apple botnet
>>62049929
I'd destroy Google.
I'd bring with me information on creating modern computing systems, along with documentation for JavaScript, C++, Lisp, Rust, and Python. I would bring with me many, many standards and RFCs.
>>62052953
>timcook2000 has joined the chatroom!
>>62053007
slaaaaaaaaaaay qweeeeen
I would remember the days when I enjoyed being alive.
>>62049929
Facebook shares, preferably buy majority of company