What did you see?

[Archangel]

It's September 23, 1988.

You just blacked out 2 minutes and saw "something", the time you saw was September 23, 2009 9:37am. (21 years)


What would your younger self have thought about what you saw.
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Even though I'm the one asking, I can't really say what I would have thought. I was in the 8th grade and hadn't even thought of joining the navy yet. Even after getting out, I still work for them and it's been my entire adult life. I would have seen my desk and probably a program we use...maybe me surfing the internet when I should be working. The only things that would have really given any information are; my command ball cap from the last ship I was on, a Certificate for 15 years service to the US Gov't, and my challenge coin collection that I try to get one from every ship I can all on a shelf above my desk. Oh, a couple of individually wrapped cookies with japanese writing on them would have been my only clue I'm in Japan, something I would never have dreamed of at the time.

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Just thought it would be a fun little thought experiment, I used the 21 year timeframe from the book instead of the 6 month one from the series...most people haven't had any major changes in six months. The exact time and date are just random ones I picked.

 

[zakkrusz]

I was 6 so probabally something like:

"Eh? Wierd. Ooh! Ninja Turtles is on!"

Especially since at 9:37am yesterday I was dead to the world, sleeping all day on my day off.

 

[Joy]

Heh. I would have been three... But remembering what I was like back then (and yes, I remember quite a bit from that age), I probably would have figured out what was going on. I'd be watching myself sitting in Lit Crit, so I really wouldn't know what everyone is talking about, but I'd realize that I'm in school, which three-year-old me would absolutely love.

Joy

 

[23skidoo]

My younger self would have been 19. And he'd probably come away from the experience extremely depressed if he had a chance to find out anything regarding personal circumstances.

If all he was able to do was just see things, he'd probably first say:

"What a cool-looking Mac".

Followed by

"Holy S**t where's my hair???"

Alex

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Three-year old me: "I get to sleep past seven? Being twenty-four rules! ...why is there a girl next to me? That's gross."

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I would have been one, so I probably wouldn't have understood a bit of it, and would have forgotten it just as quickly.

 

[Archangel]

damn bunch of youngins !

 

[Daneel]

I was five at that time. After the experience, I probably would've just wondered, "What's the Trek BBS?"

Although, I might have still been in bed. In what time zone would it have been 9:37 am? Whatever one we happened to be in? 'Cause that's not how it worked in the TV show (maybe it was different in the book, I don't know).

 

[Archangel]

Yeah, I know that's not how it worked on the show...or in the book. So yeah, it's whatever timezone you're in.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"How did the house get so messy?"

EDIT: Oh, wait, 9:37a.m.?

"Cool! I have a TV & a Nintendo in my room!"

 

[Skywalker]

My four year old self (almost five) wouldn't have seen anything, because I was asleep at 9:37 AM on the 23rd.

 

[Deckerd]

I would have seen me, dripping with the cold, stripping paint off an old picture frame back to the veneer. Then sneezing on the Jack Russell. Then starting a really stupidly big medieval tapestry. If you're going to do something stupid, make sure it's monumentally stupid, I say.

 

[Mr Light]

I would have seen me checking out customers at a bank. Ooo, exciting!

 

[jadcox@mindspring.com]

I spent the entire day and much of the night getting notes on a script. I think my younger, just post-college self would have been thrilled.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I would have seen myself sitting at a desk at a software company, writing programs. I'd be all, "What the hell language is that? I only know BASIC!" But I'd be pretty happy I was programming for a living. Woot woot!

 

[Forbin]

I'm STILL working at ITT?!!?

FUCK!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Sadly, the only things I'd have noticed immediately as major differences would be that my monitor is flat and that MS-DOS actually went away.

Being self-obsessed, I might have been surprised that I'm in better physical shape than I recall being in 1988.

 

[Roshi]

"Aw, wtf? Why am I still at school? How many classes did I repeat??? Hey, wait a minute! I am the teacher?????"


And then zap back...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Sadly, the only things I'd have noticed immediately as major differences would be that my monitor is flat and that MS-DOS actually went away.

Being self-obsessed, I might have been surprised that I'm in better physical shape than I recall being in 1988.

I should have thought of those, too. "There's a Windows 'XP' now? What happened to the numbers? And what the hell is this 'Internet' thing?"

 

[Lindley]

1988? I would be 5 years old. Kindergarten. I probably would be too freaked out to notice much of anything.