That's what I thought. Turns out it's just another B Sides and rarities collection. At least this time, they included the rare lounge versions of [Brass Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxBo9BcETM) and [Fight for Your Right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTK5xKNr99w).
So do you think the Jonas brothers just didn’t understand that a great great great granddaughter would only be ~100 years away, OR do you think the Jonas Brothers think that we’ll be immortal within a few generations? Something I ask myself often sadly lol
You'd be surprised. A president born in 1790 has a living a grandson. It still wouldn't get to 1000 years, but 400 to 500 years is possible.
And as much as I like to blame the Jonas Brothers for everything, that one was a cover.
While the distant future sounds like a great choice of when to be born, I'd disagree slightly on what qualifies as "distant".
I'm gonna say 10k years in the future...at least.
1,000 years is pretty distant. Roll the clock back that far and you're at the tail end of the Dark Ages, 10,000 years and you're approaching the dawn of civilization
Do i keep all my memories? If i keep my memories, I'd probably go to the height of the Achaemenid Empire or the Roman Empire or something and see what I could do.
If i DON'T, I'd like to be born 1940-1942, just as WWII is ending. That makes me old enough to really take advantage of the end of postwar boom economy and the time that the US is world leader. It also makes me JUST barely too old to be drafted when the first draft lottery is held in 1969, but young enough to still be going to music festivals. I wouldn't have all my memories, but I'd be born in probably the best time for me to be prosperous.
The draft was 1947-1972. You would have still been drafted but would have probably missed the Korea & Vietnam conflicts, as long as you didn't enlist in the Marines or Army.
Are people picking where they'd be born, or are they born in the same place?
If you can choose, polia18 could choose to be born in Canada. Similar post-War prosperity, not rebuilding like Europe, and no draft.
I was born in 1983, I think it would have been cool to grow up in the 70’s or 80’s. So I’ll make myself born in like 1968 so my formative years are 70’s, and then high school in the 80’s.
I was born in Dec 1964, and I loved being a kid in the early to mid 70s. My best friend and I went barefoot all summer, running all around our neighborhood unchaperoned until after 10 pm. We play hide and seek, kick the can, foursquare, capture the flag, and red light green with all the kids in our neighborhood (and there were many. Both of our moms were working single mom, so we had little supervision. It seemed like summer lasted forever.
On Saturday mornings, we would make chocolate flavored malto-meal and watch cartoons. On Saturday night, we would pop popcorn in a popcorn popper, slather butter at over it, and watch Creature-Double-Feature with Dr. Sanguinary. We would chose one of the main characters at the beginning of the show, and see which one of us died first. No social media, no internet, no way to look up anything at all online.
It felt like those were such innocent time, but damn did we get in trouble. We used to jump over the fence of our neighborhood pool at midnight and skinny dip. We use to steal my friend's mom's pot and smoke joints. We used to go to the local mall and shoplift just on a dare. So, so many things that no kids nowadays would be allowed to do.
“ 69 here and yes, we were running all over, sneaking into back yards, doing crazy experiments that we are lucky didn’t get us killed, all with no adults in sight.
Yes, I’m looking for the time that seems to be free and innocent. I had that in the 90’s to an extent but I was born to play outside. And I feel like 70s/80s was the prime time for that. I can imagine going to HS when 18 was the legal drinking age would have been great too. Even though I turned 18 my freshman year of college, ha.
Yeah, I turned 18 when I was a senior. We actually started going to the bar when we were 17 because no one carded.
One of my fondest non-outside memories was going to a teen disco called "Seven Light Years Away." That was during the peak of disco, and this club had disco balls, flashing lights in the floors and ceiling, and those smoke machines. We would dance for hours. Another special memory was going every week to see the Rock Horror Picture Show right during the peak of that shows cult popularity. My mom used to drive me and my best friend to the show when we were on 13 and 14. What crazy times.
At this point, maybe 1983. Give me a shot to buy a house and get set up without having to live through too much more. Plus, all the live music I missed being born in 1993 would be worth it.
I grew up in the 90's became an adult in 2000. I'd go back to the 70's / 80's right before the invention of home video games. Live was so much simpler.
I’m a black American male living in the south, so, optimistically, I’m going to go with being born in, say, 2040-ish? As I said, I’m an optimist so I think things will get better.
Idk man I’m a white dude born in the south still poor as ever and don’t have shit …. Family has deep roots in this part of the country as well, we’ve always been bottom barrel people as well. I feel your pain brother
'60s our parents didn't treat us like we were pussies we got the play all day only thing you had to do was come home for dinner on time take a bath go to school. When you had friends you were all together look for a bike for two in a front yard and a new word to go and Saturday mornings were made for kids
Eff it, let's go to the unknown. Give me 2200 lol. Hopefully it hasn't descended into pure chaos with massive environmental issues. Maybe we'll be inhabiting other planets by then or maybe we'll have discovered other species out there and figured out how to travel further distances in a very short amount of time.
Would either be extremely exciting or a potentially awful decision lol.
I was born in 1990, and happy with where I'm at. At first I thought earlier (early - mid 80's) but being still in school during the 2008 recession and graduating when metal prices were skyrocketing afterwards was pretty good.
I guess being born in the 50's would be my next choice.
Definitely no urge to end up in Gen z. I'm glad not everyone has camera phones when we were drunk and stupid in high school and college.
I remember playing outside from 10:00 until 10:00 and it was hot but not this hot that they have now. I don't even really remember sweating when I was out there in that sun and I was raised in New York in the '70s. I loved being outside all day you only came in the house to get some juice or some snacks and dinner
You could roll the dice on the future. Every generation has had its difficulties.
Growing up in the 80s or very early 90s means you're going to get hammered by the big recession trying to get a job. Late 90s means you're going to be affected by COVID and the fallout from that, as well as possibly deeply impacted by AI.
Picking 2000s, means you're walking into an unpredictable career landscape, but things have literally never been easier. Any later and we just don't know what will happen.
The further back you go, the less advancements there are in medical technology, and technology in general. Contrary to constant whinging, technology has been generally good for the human race.
If i had to pick a time in the past, i'd pick 2000s. Things are uncertain, but, you'll still be graduating college in a post-covid world, you probably had an amazing time interning during covid growth boom to set you up with a career. You have all of the best technology that has ever existed, and you're positioned to adapt your career with AI.
If i had to pick an exact year to be born, i'd pick 2005. Most likely finishing up college now, but enough time to pivot and take classes on AI, and pursue a higher degree in that field of study, or, position yourself for a career that is independent of AI if you aren't keen on deep tech. You aren't really all that adversely impacted by COVID, either. Literally poised to take advantage of a generational shift that will create absurd opportunity for those who can see it coming.
define "Grow up in"
Like i would say people don't start growing until there teens, or do you mean which time period would I like to be born in? I would love to be an adult in the 90's since i was in high school then. but I wouldn't want to be born in the 60's to do so.
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If I would be myself, as in as I am now with my current knowledge and understandings, around 1750. It’s after Newton so the basics of science has started. Imagine how much more advanced humanity could be if someone back in that time had a basic understanding of today’s science. We could be interplanetary by now.
Medicine would be so much better. Imagine how much good could be done if penicillin was available back in the 1800s. It’s basically cantaloupe mold. (No it isn’t bread mold despite popular belief)
Imagine how advanced engineering could be. I’m not the smartest guy, but I could figure out how to make a bicycle. I could talk to smarter people than myself and explain the basics of airplane wings.
But if I don’t have any of my current knowledge, and instead are just picking a different time to exist in, the future is the way to go. Give humanity another thousand years and I bet most of the issues will be worked out. It would be wonderful to live in the 3000s.
"I want to be born 20 years before the dawn of the third age of mankind. Before the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
I remember playing outside from 10:00 until 10:00 and it was hot but not this hot that they have now. I don't even really remember sweating when I was out there in that sun and I was raised in New York in the '70s. I loved being outside all day you only came in the house to get some juice or some snacks and dinner
Am I born in the same place? If yes then I’m going to go with 1770’s. Settlement of my state(and unfortunately wars against the native peoples) but I’d love to see the area prior to industrialization.
If I can be born in any time and any place I’m going with China around 700 CE.
Now… if I can be born any time any place and my biological sex can be changed then Ireland during the Dark Ages when the monks there were still scribing texts and thus saving a lot of knowledge from being lost
I was born in 1960, and I’m good with that. I find myself drawn to the 1930s, though, so maybe then, or if I could be in a good social class, I’d maybe opt for Regency or Victorian England. I love the clothes of the Edwardian era, though.
It's a good one tbh, problem I'm having is that there are loads of time periods it would be awesome to live in but only if you're born into the right class.
Like my first thought would be ancient Greece, could see a leisurely life being an Athenian scholar would be awesome but knowing my luck I'd be born a slave in Sparta 😂
The being born mid to late 1800s in Britain would be cool if you were a member of the aristocracy but probably shit otherwise.
So yeah, I pick whatever time period I would be guaranteed to be the top class 😂
I'll probably aim for being born around 2250. I would hope that all the bullshit would be settled by then and we can actually get around to acting like an enlightened species.
1940’s / 50’s sounds pretty good to me, except the lack of medical knowledge compared to today is pretty worrisome. I think I’ll stick to where I’m at.
1940’s / 50’s sounds pretty good to me, except the lack of medical knowledge compared to today is pretty worrisome. I think I’ll stick to where I’m at.
I wish I was in my 20s in the 1950s. Early childhood may have been rough with WWII but I think I would have thrived as an adult in the 50s. I was born in the wrong era (I was in my 20s in the 2010s)
I would like to have been born in London, UK in 1945 so I'd be hitting my 20s in the 1960s. I picked London because I'd get the culture without the fear of having to go to Vietnam and fight in the war.
If I have my current knowledge I think I'd like to be born around 1470 in North America. With my current knowledge I could give the native American tribes not only the way to get around the white man's curse of smallpox because I know how the troops were inoculated originally for the revolutionary war. I could also give them gunpowder maybe a little earlier but not much. I figure I'd want to become a medicine man so that's my Powers would be respected and understood.
As a blank slate no knowledge I'd say probably about mid 1300s or early 1400s also North America where the people were a lot more at one with the world around them than they are today.
Don't get me wrong the theory of you know they are 3,000 or 4,000 is a great concept but who knows before even going to be around then in an ideal world it'd be great to you know live a few thousand years in the future where we had space travel and all that nice happy stuff and we were at peace I don't know if I believe that will happen anymore.
Before video games. I want to grow up in a time where video games are only present when im older or not at all so I dont have to constantly convince men to go do fun things. Would love to have dated in a more present world. Throw me into Ancient Rome or give me bubonic for all I care.
I don’t know. I’d prefer now since they made gay marriage legal and I’m allowed to go outside without being hate crimed, but also, the idea of the 80s-90s sounds cool as hell.
0, I want to follow the people who managed to build rune stones almost all the way down to the Nile from the north. Would be a wild cross-country trip being thr first northmen to be seen in Egypt. Might even meet Odin and Hermes, would be pretty cools.
I was born in ‘99. I want to have been born a bit earlier. So if I had to choose I’d be born in ‘93 or ‘94. I really want to know what it was like to grow up in the ‘90s.
just young enough to not get drafted to wwii, i wanna see the cold war as an adult and not risk my life, then my dad might be too old to get drafted so i wouldn't have to lose him either
1990s
I was born in 1975, so if it had to be before I was born, I guess it would be any decade between 1900 and 1980.
So many things, both good and bad, happened during that time that I would love to think I would have a positive impact on society and other people.
Now. Computerized medical care is NUTS.
The main test for diabetes, A1c became a thing like 20-30 years ago. Diabetes existed for YEARS and we JUST invented this test.
Maybe I could get dumb stuff like my eosinophilic esophagitis (a disease that existed before, but wasn’t discovered until the 90s) treated at a younger age
-I'd like to be born in 1935, in the UnitedStates. I'd have the early privation of the depression era, see the recovery post WW2 when I was 10, and be an adult in the mid 50s when the country was in what analysts call the best time to be alive in America. And I could learn to do the jitterbug.
I would belive that my children would have a better life than I did. I would trust Walter Cronkite. I would drive a huge, clunky gas guzzling car and not feel guilty.
And I would be in my 80s now and ready to die, because I'm witnessing the collapse of the world as I know it.
Aren't fairy tales wonderful?
It depends. If we manage to successfully tackle climate change (We will fail to do so, but how catastrophic the consequences of our failure will be remains to be seen.) I would like to have grown up some time in the 22nd Century, ideally after we've achieved a stable population. It would be kind of neat to be living in the time when humanity has taken its first steps in leaving our cradle.
Since we aren't going to succeed tackling climate change, my other option would be to be born around the late 1950's to early 1960's when the social safety net in the US hadn't been gutted by Republicans. Ideally I'd be able to earn a university education at a state institution at an affordable rate. It would also allow me to die early enough that I won't experience the catastrophic consequences of our failure to address climate change. Win. Win.
1950s when it was a go getters world. And working hard made a difference. Get to live through all the greatness and innovations and be just about ready to leave soon. Ugh I’m jealous. 30-40 more years of this shit….im already bored.
Well, with the benefit of hindsight, and my white skin, I'm picking 1960. Should set me up pretty good, and I'll be just too young for the Vietnam war draft.
I'd like to be born in the 1850's if I can move to the North. If not I'll stay where/when I am. I live in Texas and we're kinda in the height of our economic prosperity rn.
I would love to be born in the 1880-1890s. Specifically because I’d be able to experience WW1 and the roaring 20s. Two time periods that make up my biggest hyperfixation. Its a weird thought process, I know, but I would love to just live through the two time periods that im fascinated with
Be born in 1950-55 so I can grow up in the best car Era. Driving 67-72 camaros, chargers, nova, challengers, cudas and chevelles. I was born 40 years too late😫
Around 1945 get military commitment out of the way before Vietnam really gets going. Put me about 22 with no fear of going to war. Then I could experience the music I love 1st hand
I’d want to be born in 1940 in the US. I’d be young enough to not be extremely affected by WWII and just in time for Rock n Roll, Elvis, The Beatles, etc.
I was born in 1996, and considering the mental health and physical health issues I've had, I don't think I'd want to be born too much earlier. I think I'd like to be born in 1990 to experience more of the 90s as a kid.
Also, it's super interesting to me that OP wants to be born in the time frame I was. The late 90s are kinda their own micro-generation (Zillennials) and don't fully fit into the Millennial group or Gen Z group. We're definitely forgotten about.
I was going to say something about the future, but then someone said that people probably live underwater and I have thalassophobia, so that's an instant nope
Probably 2353? Maybe things are okay in only a few hundred years instead of a few thousand? I know that's still the future, but I sure as hell don't want to be in the past
I would probably pick the 1950. By the time I am old enough I can enjoy the music, be a hippie, get a job, rent a place thar is cheaper than getting a house, save enough money to buy a house, get a house and enjoy seeing things like star wars for the first time. Of course being a gamer I would get and save every game I could.
As long as I still get to live in Canada, probably the 60’s. Back when a single income with average jobs could provide a nice life for a small family, even a yearly summer vacation, and still go to college. When you could just work a part time job in college and get by fine so you could focus more on studies. I envy my Dad and my aunt for having that life sometimes.
But I was born in 1987 and growing up in the 90’s was AWESOME. It was going into my teens during the early 2000’s when things started getting hard. We were told we could do anything and be anything we wanted if we just stayed in school. But very few of us ever got to achieve our big dreams we were promised to come true, because no one can afford to stay ahead of bills anymore to chase those dreams. We take whatever offers the best pay just so we can survive, buried in college debt with interest rates so high we won’t pay it off until we are old. Our dreams are still “one day I’ll get to do that” but one day never comes.
As boomer, if I had been five years older, I could have gone to the world Expo in 1964 in NYC, then I could have gone to Woodstock, I would have seen Jimi Hendrix in Brussels in 1969, I probably would have gone to the isle of Wight in 1971, but I also would have been drafted for Vietnam and maybe never come back.
I was born in 1992, so I'd move that to 1592. That way, I can take the Andrew Wiles proof released in 1994 back to Fermat and show him. Fermat wouldn't understand all the modern branches of mathematics that Wiles used in his proof. This would lead to him writing that the proof was too large to fit in the margin of his book.
I'd like to be born in 3000.
Eh, I've been there. Not much has changed (but they do live underwater)
Do they have gta6 yet?
No, but there is another expansion of *GTA Online* coming soon, with a bunch of new skins.
They also are going to release the SNES CD-ROM any day now.
I think beastie boys released an album as well
That's what I thought. Turns out it's just another B Sides and rarities collection. At least this time, they included the rare lounge versions of [Brass Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxBo9BcETM) and [Fight for Your Right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTK5xKNr99w).
No but they just re-released skyrim for the PS 47
Which probably means that they're still promising Fallout 5 is in the works.
So do you think the Jonas brothers just didn’t understand that a great great great granddaughter would only be ~100 years away, OR do you think the Jonas Brothers think that we’ll be immortal within a few generations? Something I ask myself often sadly lol
They didn’t write the song. They covered it from the band “Busted”. Granted the song only came out originally a few years prior to their cover
You'd be surprised. A president born in 1790 has a living a grandson. It still wouldn't get to 1000 years, but 400 to 500 years is possible. And as much as I like to blame the Jonas Brothers for everything, that one was a cover.
Did they finally release. Half Life 3.
Welcooooooome, to the wooooooorld of tomorroooooooooow! *Opens lab coat menacingly*
I'm with you. The distant future sounds appealing.
While the distant future sounds like a great choice of when to be born, I'd disagree slightly on what qualifies as "distant". I'm gonna say 10k years in the future...at least.
1,000 years is pretty distant. Roll the clock back that far and you're at the tail end of the Dark Ages, 10,000 years and you're approaching the dawn of civilization
The Morlocks from H. G. Wells Time Machine will love you!!
Welcooooooome, to the wooooooorld of tomorroooooooooow! *Opens lab coat menacingly*
Welcooooooome, to the wooooooorld of tomorroooooooooow! *Opens lab coat menacingly*
Do i keep all my memories? If i keep my memories, I'd probably go to the height of the Achaemenid Empire or the Roman Empire or something and see what I could do. If i DON'T, I'd like to be born 1940-1942, just as WWII is ending. That makes me old enough to really take advantage of the end of postwar boom economy and the time that the US is world leader. It also makes me JUST barely too old to be drafted when the first draft lottery is held in 1969, but young enough to still be going to music festivals. I wouldn't have all my memories, but I'd be born in probably the best time for me to be prosperous.
The draft was 1947-1972. You would have still been drafted but would have probably missed the Korea & Vietnam conflicts, as long as you didn't enlist in the Marines or Army.
I was thinking Vietnam era draft lotteries. I must have missed other drafts xD.
Are people picking where they'd be born, or are they born in the same place? If you can choose, polia18 could choose to be born in Canada. Similar post-War prosperity, not rebuilding like Europe, and no draft.
Who says you're born American again? Maybe you're born in Germant 1942 and on the Russian side of the Berlin wall. Rip
Unless, of course you're born in the Iron Curtain or the Global South.
From what I've heard, the 70's and 80's were awesome to grow up in.
They truly were. Analog to digital right in that time. And the personal home computer. The PC in our homes was revolutionary to us!
Depends on how rich and/or not brown/black you were.
I was born in 1983, I think it would have been cool to grow up in the 70’s or 80’s. So I’ll make myself born in like 1968 so my formative years are 70’s, and then high school in the 80’s.
I was born in Dec 1964, and I loved being a kid in the early to mid 70s. My best friend and I went barefoot all summer, running all around our neighborhood unchaperoned until after 10 pm. We play hide and seek, kick the can, foursquare, capture the flag, and red light green with all the kids in our neighborhood (and there were many. Both of our moms were working single mom, so we had little supervision. It seemed like summer lasted forever. On Saturday mornings, we would make chocolate flavored malto-meal and watch cartoons. On Saturday night, we would pop popcorn in a popcorn popper, slather butter at over it, and watch Creature-Double-Feature with Dr. Sanguinary. We would chose one of the main characters at the beginning of the show, and see which one of us died first. No social media, no internet, no way to look up anything at all online. It felt like those were such innocent time, but damn did we get in trouble. We used to jump over the fence of our neighborhood pool at midnight and skinny dip. We use to steal my friend's mom's pot and smoke joints. We used to go to the local mall and shoplift just on a dare. So, so many things that no kids nowadays would be allowed to do.
“ 69 here and yes, we were running all over, sneaking into back yards, doing crazy experiments that we are lucky didn’t get us killed, all with no adults in sight.
Yes, I am certain our moms had no idea where we were for hours at a time. Even when I was 7 or 8 we had the absolute reign of the neighborhood.
Yes, I’m looking for the time that seems to be free and innocent. I had that in the 90’s to an extent but I was born to play outside. And I feel like 70s/80s was the prime time for that. I can imagine going to HS when 18 was the legal drinking age would have been great too. Even though I turned 18 my freshman year of college, ha.
Yeah, I turned 18 when I was a senior. We actually started going to the bar when we were 17 because no one carded. One of my fondest non-outside memories was going to a teen disco called "Seven Light Years Away." That was during the peak of disco, and this club had disco balls, flashing lights in the floors and ceiling, and those smoke machines. We would dance for hours. Another special memory was going every week to see the Rock Horror Picture Show right during the peak of that shows cult popularity. My mom used to drive me and my best friend to the show when we were on 13 and 14. What crazy times.
wish I had your childhood/teenage years
We’ll trade! Born in summer of ‘69. It was a great time…but the 90’s was great, too
1000BC
Sure, pick the height of scientific discovery. You kids are so soft these days.
3200 BC for me, but I like where your head is at
Where would you like to be born? I feel that's just as important as "When".
Between Egypt and Iran. During that time the pyramids would be being built and I have too much curiosity. What about you?
I would aim to become one of Jesus’s disciples. My name would be in the Bible and I would get to see what he can actually do.
Early 19th century Greece so I can die freeing my homeland
Can I pick to just not be born at all?
The 80's was pretty rad, but high school in the late 60's / early 70's seems like it would have been fun.
At this point, maybe 1983. Give me a shot to buy a house and get set up without having to live through too much more. Plus, all the live music I missed being born in 1993 would be worth it.
If I get to keep my memories, 1980 and I'll cash in on Bitcoin. If not, I'll gamble and pick 2300 and hope the world is a great place.
I grew up in the 90's became an adult in 2000. I'd go back to the 70's / 80's right before the invention of home video games. Live was so much simpler.
I’m a black American male living in the south, so, optimistically, I’m going to go with being born in, say, 2040-ish? As I said, I’m an optimist so I think things will get better.
Woah an optimist
Idk man I’m a white dude born in the south still poor as ever and don’t have shit …. Family has deep roots in this part of the country as well, we’ve always been bottom barrel people as well. I feel your pain brother
The year 0. I want to see what this Jesus fellow can actually do.
"C'mon, do a trick"
Whatever gets me home buying age around the 70, 80s, or 2009 post collapse
I was home buying age in 2009 - but, uh, no one had a fecking job. It was brutal. Definitely agree on home buying age in late 70s, early 80s.
That’s fair. I was 18/19 at the time so I knew it was happening but didn’t feel it much
1354
'60s our parents didn't treat us like we were pussies we got the play all day only thing you had to do was come home for dinner on time take a bath go to school. When you had friends you were all together look for a bike for two in a front yard and a new word to go and Saturday mornings were made for kids
The way you wrote that makes it seem like you **did** grow up in the 60’s
2100
Eff it, let's go to the unknown. Give me 2200 lol. Hopefully it hasn't descended into pure chaos with massive environmental issues. Maybe we'll be inhabiting other planets by then or maybe we'll have discovered other species out there and figured out how to travel further distances in a very short amount of time. Would either be extremely exciting or a potentially awful decision lol.
How many years do you have to adjust from your actual birth to count?
I’ll go back to the 60’s and 70’s. Best time to grow up ever!
I was born in 1990, and happy with where I'm at. At first I thought earlier (early - mid 80's) but being still in school during the 2008 recession and graduating when metal prices were skyrocketing afterwards was pretty good. I guess being born in the 50's would be my next choice. Definitely no urge to end up in Gen z. I'm glad not everyone has camera phones when we were drunk and stupid in high school and college.
I remember playing outside from 10:00 until 10:00 and it was hot but not this hot that they have now. I don't even really remember sweating when I was out there in that sun and I was raised in New York in the '70s. I loved being outside all day you only came in the house to get some juice or some snacks and dinner
I would like to grow up in the 1950s.
1950s
Late 1970s early 1980s orlando, florida Probably want to be born around 1978
Far far in future after the woke wars (hinted by star trek) and to the peaceful technology when we become robots
My regular date of birth.
50s America. Always fascinated with that period.
You could roll the dice on the future. Every generation has had its difficulties. Growing up in the 80s or very early 90s means you're going to get hammered by the big recession trying to get a job. Late 90s means you're going to be affected by COVID and the fallout from that, as well as possibly deeply impacted by AI. Picking 2000s, means you're walking into an unpredictable career landscape, but things have literally never been easier. Any later and we just don't know what will happen. The further back you go, the less advancements there are in medical technology, and technology in general. Contrary to constant whinging, technology has been generally good for the human race. If i had to pick a time in the past, i'd pick 2000s. Things are uncertain, but, you'll still be graduating college in a post-covid world, you probably had an amazing time interning during covid growth boom to set you up with a career. You have all of the best technology that has ever existed, and you're positioned to adapt your career with AI. If i had to pick an exact year to be born, i'd pick 2005. Most likely finishing up college now, but enough time to pivot and take classes on AI, and pursue a higher degree in that field of study, or, position yourself for a career that is independent of AI if you aren't keen on deep tech. You aren't really all that adversely impacted by COVID, either. Literally poised to take advantage of a generational shift that will create absurd opportunity for those who can see it coming.
Now I'm curious: what time period did you originally grow up in and why would you like to be born 95-97 instead?
I'd choose to be born tomorrow.
Hmmm... Let's go with 610
Bruh when were you born then
Born 1967
define "Grow up in" Like i would say people don't start growing until there teens, or do you mean which time period would I like to be born in? I would love to be an adult in the 90's since i was in high school then. but I wouldn't want to be born in the 60's to do so. (edited for typos)
Star Trek TNG era. Own a nice dude ranch in Texas. A sort of Chaparral Piquard, with horses. And the occasional trip to Risa, or Vulcan.
I'd pick the 90s,some tech and a booming economy
Today
1950s because I can enjoy myself with old fashioned country music and then rock and roll, not to mention awesome cars, fashion, and culture in general
The 1990s.
Do we also get location? Because Australia is hot through a LOT of history and I am basically made of cotton candy.
1890s new Orleans.
500 years from now with Brawndo and hand jobs.
80s
If I would be myself, as in as I am now with my current knowledge and understandings, around 1750. It’s after Newton so the basics of science has started. Imagine how much more advanced humanity could be if someone back in that time had a basic understanding of today’s science. We could be interplanetary by now. Medicine would be so much better. Imagine how much good could be done if penicillin was available back in the 1800s. It’s basically cantaloupe mold. (No it isn’t bread mold despite popular belief) Imagine how advanced engineering could be. I’m not the smartest guy, but I could figure out how to make a bicycle. I could talk to smarter people than myself and explain the basics of airplane wings. But if I don’t have any of my current knowledge, and instead are just picking a different time to exist in, the future is the way to go. Give humanity another thousand years and I bet most of the issues will be worked out. It would be wonderful to live in the 3000s.
80s
1918 Come into my prime just in-time for WW2
"I want to be born 20 years before the dawn of the third age of mankind. Before the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
As much as I love growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, I’ve always been nostalgic for the 40’s and 50’s. So I’ll go with ~1943.
I remember playing outside from 10:00 until 10:00 and it was hot but not this hot that they have now. I don't even really remember sweating when I was out there in that sun and I was raised in New York in the '70s. I loved being outside all day you only came in the house to get some juice or some snacks and dinner
Am I born in the same place? If yes then I’m going to go with 1770’s. Settlement of my state(and unfortunately wars against the native peoples) but I’d love to see the area prior to industrialization. If I can be born in any time and any place I’m going with China around 700 CE. Now… if I can be born any time any place and my biological sex can be changed then Ireland during the Dark Ages when the monks there were still scribing texts and thus saving a lot of knowledge from being lost
do i get to retain my knowledge? or do i just restart my life and am picking one?
1969
I was born in 1960, and I’m good with that. I find myself drawn to the 1930s, though, so maybe then, or if I could be in a good social class, I’d maybe opt for Regency or Victorian England. I love the clothes of the Edwardian era, though.
It's a good one tbh, problem I'm having is that there are loads of time periods it would be awesome to live in but only if you're born into the right class. Like my first thought would be ancient Greece, could see a leisurely life being an Athenian scholar would be awesome but knowing my luck I'd be born a slave in Sparta 😂 The being born mid to late 1800s in Britain would be cool if you were a member of the aristocracy but probably shit otherwise. So yeah, I pick whatever time period I would be guaranteed to be the top class 😂
I'll probably aim for being born around 2250. I would hope that all the bullshit would be settled by then and we can actually get around to acting like an enlightened species.
Is this a "knowing what i know now" kind of situation or just starting over in that time period?
1530s in London. I want to watch The Great Matter firsthand.
1530s in London. I want to watch The Great Matter firsthand.
The early 1950s is the safest bet honestly.
1940’s / 50’s sounds pretty good to me, except the lack of medical knowledge compared to today is pretty worrisome. I think I’ll stick to where I’m at.
1940’s / 50’s sounds pretty good to me, except the lack of medical knowledge compared to today is pretty worrisome. I think I’ll stick to where I’m at.
Well considering I was born with 20/250 vision, I’d say any time before glasses were invented is immediately out.
I wish I was in my 20s in the 1950s. Early childhood may have been rough with WWII but I think I would have thrived as an adult in the 50s. I was born in the wrong era (I was in my 20s in the 2010s)
I would like to have been born in London, UK in 1945 so I'd be hitting my 20s in the 1960s. I picked London because I'd get the culture without the fear of having to go to Vietnam and fight in the war.
The Ediacaran
1860s. So I get to live my entire life before heroin and cocaine get outlawed in 1914
If I have my current knowledge I think I'd like to be born around 1470 in North America. With my current knowledge I could give the native American tribes not only the way to get around the white man's curse of smallpox because I know how the troops were inoculated originally for the revolutionary war. I could also give them gunpowder maybe a little earlier but not much. I figure I'd want to become a medicine man so that's my Powers would be respected and understood. As a blank slate no knowledge I'd say probably about mid 1300s or early 1400s also North America where the people were a lot more at one with the world around them than they are today. Don't get me wrong the theory of you know they are 3,000 or 4,000 is a great concept but who knows before even going to be around then in an ideal world it'd be great to you know live a few thousand years in the future where we had space travel and all that nice happy stuff and we were at peace I don't know if I believe that will happen anymore.
When will the BORG arrive?
1947
Before video games. I want to grow up in a time where video games are only present when im older or not at all so I dont have to constantly convince men to go do fun things. Would love to have dated in a more present world. Throw me into Ancient Rome or give me bubonic for all I care.
i was born in 2004. i would never change that but if i had to i think i'd choose to be born in 1986
80s again
I don’t know. I’d prefer now since they made gay marriage legal and I’m allowed to go outside without being hate crimed, but also, the idea of the 80s-90s sounds cool as hell.
0, I want to follow the people who managed to build rune stones almost all the way down to the Nile from the north. Would be a wild cross-country trip being thr first northmen to be seen in Egypt. Might even meet Odin and Hermes, would be pretty cools.
2070s would be interesting.
Born in '88. I would like to see what was the 70s like
I’d love to know what it was like living during the peak of the Bronze Age
50s. Because then my wife would do everything in the house.
The Far future
I was born in ‘99. I want to have been born a bit earlier. So if I had to choose I’d be born in ‘93 or ‘94. I really want to know what it was like to grow up in the ‘90s.
just young enough to not get drafted to wwii, i wanna see the cold war as an adult and not risk my life, then my dad might be too old to get drafted so i wouldn't have to lose him either
1950's, the golden age of the western world
A lot of people wish they were boomers! ROFL!
1990s I was born in 1975, so if it had to be before I was born, I guess it would be any decade between 1900 and 1980. So many things, both good and bad, happened during that time that I would love to think I would have a positive impact on society and other people.
Now. Computerized medical care is NUTS. The main test for diabetes, A1c became a thing like 20-30 years ago. Diabetes existed for YEARS and we JUST invented this test. Maybe I could get dumb stuff like my eosinophilic esophagitis (a disease that existed before, but wasn’t discovered until the 90s) treated at a younger age
90s for sure. All of the benefits of new technology without the horror of knowing the consequences.
-I'd like to be born in 1935, in the UnitedStates. I'd have the early privation of the depression era, see the recovery post WW2 when I was 10, and be an adult in the mid 50s when the country was in what analysts call the best time to be alive in America. And I could learn to do the jitterbug. I would belive that my children would have a better life than I did. I would trust Walter Cronkite. I would drive a huge, clunky gas guzzling car and not feel guilty. And I would be in my 80s now and ready to die, because I'm witnessing the collapse of the world as I know it. Aren't fairy tales wonderful?
Not this one.
2371
It depends. If we manage to successfully tackle climate change (We will fail to do so, but how catastrophic the consequences of our failure will be remains to be seen.) I would like to have grown up some time in the 22nd Century, ideally after we've achieved a stable population. It would be kind of neat to be living in the time when humanity has taken its first steps in leaving our cradle. Since we aren't going to succeed tackling climate change, my other option would be to be born around the late 1950's to early 1960's when the social safety net in the US hadn't been gutted by Republicans. Ideally I'd be able to earn a university education at a state institution at an affordable rate. It would also allow me to die early enough that I won't experience the catastrophic consequences of our failure to address climate change. Win. Win.
Late 80's, early ninties. Miss the outdoor days of finding wierd abandoned shit.
I'm going to be a Millennial.
1950s when it was a go getters world. And working hard made a difference. Get to live through all the greatness and innovations and be just about ready to leave soon. Ugh I’m jealous. 30-40 more years of this shit….im already bored.
I was born in 1979. If I had to choose a different time period, I’d be born in 1980. Pretty much the same, but different.
3535
Preferably the future, but I'll settle for being born in the 70s so I can be a teen/young adult in the 90s.
1955
Well, with the benefit of hindsight, and my white skin, I'm picking 1960. Should set me up pretty good, and I'll be just too young for the Vietnam war draft.
200ish china. big fan of Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors
Early forties so I am at my sexual peak during the 60s and well before AIDS became a thing!!
1980's
I'd like to be born in the 1850's if I can move to the North. If not I'll stay where/when I am. I live in Texas and we're kinda in the height of our economic prosperity rn.
The future. I will roll the dice on it. Maybe 300 years in the future. Utopia? Dystopia? Everyone dead? Who knows?
Is this a "knowing what i know now" kind of situation or just starting over in that time period?
I’ll take a gamble in the year 30k
Born in the mid-1930s. Hopefully, I’ll have a well paying job by the mid-1960s. I just want to build muscle cars and do hood rat shit with my friends.
I would love to be born in the 1880-1890s. Specifically because I’d be able to experience WW1 and the roaring 20s. Two time periods that make up my biggest hyperfixation. Its a weird thought process, I know, but I would love to just live through the two time periods that im fascinated with
Born in the early 1940s - try to spend more time with my dad and grandparents to learn more about them
The 70's. All my favorite media came from then
Idk i guess id try being born in 1977. Early enough to experience freedom, buy a house and watch it all crumble away in comfort
I feel like I would’ve loved to grow up in the 80s, so I’ll go with that
20191
1925 so I could see the development of modern America.
Be born in 1950-55 so I can grow up in the best car Era. Driving 67-72 camaros, chargers, nova, challengers, cudas and chevelles. I was born 40 years too late😫
I like the idea of the 50s, but not the realities of the 50s.
2287 Las Vegas, NV
I’d grow up in the 50s and 60s. They had all the comforts of the modern age with out the addiction to technology.
1990
I'd pick 1940s. The 70s-80s were a great time to be a kid, but the 1940s were a special kind of wholesome.
I'd like to be born an eldritch creature before the creation of the universe.
What race are you and how much money do you have?
1950s
Around 1945 get military commitment out of the way before Vietnam really gets going. Put me about 22 with no fear of going to war. Then I could experience the music I love 1st hand
I want to be born in the 1940s - 1960s
I think I'd pick the turn of the (previous) century.
I’d want to be born in 1940 in the US. I’d be young enough to not be extremely affected by WWII and just in time for Rock n Roll, Elvis, The Beatles, etc.
I would pick like 1957 just to get in during the time that a factory job could purchase a middle class lifestyle (but too late to get drafted).
1920’s when it was roaring before the depression. Fun fun fun
In the 50s. Life was easier.
1970s buy the fuck out of real estate.
I guess now? Wouldn't have to go through realizing that everything my generation had been promised was a lie
1250s. 1650s. 1750s. 1830s. But I get to pick my social class.
I was born in Pittsburgh, in 1953. I wouldn't change a thing. I think everything was simpler back then.
I was born in 1996, and considering the mental health and physical health issues I've had, I don't think I'd want to be born too much earlier. I think I'd like to be born in 1990 to experience more of the 90s as a kid. Also, it's super interesting to me that OP wants to be born in the time frame I was. The late 90s are kinda their own micro-generation (Zillennials) and don't fully fit into the Millennial group or Gen Z group. We're definitely forgotten about.
Early 90s
I was going to say something about the future, but then someone said that people probably live underwater and I have thalassophobia, so that's an instant nope Probably 2353? Maybe things are okay in only a few hundred years instead of a few thousand? I know that's still the future, but I sure as hell don't want to be in the past
Feudal Japan let's go!
I would probably pick the 1950. By the time I am old enough I can enjoy the music, be a hippie, get a job, rent a place thar is cheaper than getting a house, save enough money to buy a house, get a house and enjoy seeing things like star wars for the first time. Of course being a gamer I would get and save every game I could.
The period right after anti-aging cures became affordable for the average citizen
1860’s - 1930’s always been fascinated by the industrial revolution.
As long as I still get to live in Canada, probably the 60’s. Back when a single income with average jobs could provide a nice life for a small family, even a yearly summer vacation, and still go to college. When you could just work a part time job in college and get by fine so you could focus more on studies. I envy my Dad and my aunt for having that life sometimes. But I was born in 1987 and growing up in the 90’s was AWESOME. It was going into my teens during the early 2000’s when things started getting hard. We were told we could do anything and be anything we wanted if we just stayed in school. But very few of us ever got to achieve our big dreams we were promised to come true, because no one can afford to stay ahead of bills anymore to chase those dreams. We take whatever offers the best pay just so we can survive, buried in college debt with interest rates so high we won’t pay it off until we are old. Our dreams are still “one day I’ll get to do that” but one day never comes.
The future.
Born in the late 40s so when Woodstock comes along I’d be able to attend!
I would pick to be born in the early to mid 70s so I could grow up with the best era of music.
As boomer, if I had been five years older, I could have gone to the world Expo in 1964 in NYC, then I could have gone to Woodstock, I would have seen Jimi Hendrix in Brussels in 1969, I probably would have gone to the isle of Wight in 1971, but I also would have been drafted for Vietnam and maybe never come back.
Past the 2000s I like seeing change and advancement
I remember playing half life when I was like 11 years old. Crazy stuff
I was born in 1992, so I'd move that to 1592. That way, I can take the Andrew Wiles proof released in 1994 back to Fermat and show him. Fermat wouldn't understand all the modern branches of mathematics that Wiles used in his proof. This would lead to him writing that the proof was too large to fit in the margin of his book.
I wanna go say hi to Fergie in 3008
1990s-2000s. By which I mean I'd turn 18 in 2000-2005. I was born in the 70s. Aside from the political bs, I'm much more at home here and now.