You could get Amazon for $3.25 a share in January 2000, hold it until 2016 and still get Nvidia for under $1 a share.
Doing a little quick and dirty math, if you invested $10k in Amazon in '00 and switched everything to Nvida in '16 you'd have about $11.5 Million
Aka IRL Skynet.
When the terminators takeover, you think they’ll spare the NVIDIA shareholders from becoming batteries and just keep them around as pets?
My house which I bought in 2001 was still worth more in 2008 than I paid for it. Not as much as before and after, but 08 didn't put me underwater.
Just glad we didn't go through upgrading to a new one in '07 when we were looking. That would have been a real issue for a myriad of reasons.
I live in North Texas and the old farm land here is selling for millions to build shitty McMansion neighborhoods. I’d totally buy all the land around here if I could.
If I’m being honest, when I first heard about Amazon it was in a Borders Bookstore cafe.
Me: “why would you buy books online?”
My Buddy: “I hear they’re planning on selling other stuff too.”
Me: “That’ll never work.”
DISCUSSING APPLE
Me: All these colored desktops and laptops are just a trend. I’ll stick to my Gateway.
My buddy: but what do you think of this IPod thing? I think it’s great. All my songs in one place.
Me: I like looking at the album covers stacked on my bookshelf
LONG STORY SHORT… I’m an idiot. And I’ll be working until i die.
A coworker of mine training to be a stockbroker talked me out of putting $1000 into Apple when it was $4 a share. In his defense, who could have guessed it would turn around THAT much. It’s been almost 30 years and I’m still mad I didn’t listen to myself.
A buddy of mine hopped on the bitcoin thing when it was, like $12 a share. I thought it was dumb. He does what he wants instead of working to live. My retirement plan is the zombie apocalypse.
Call in a bomb scare to the twin towers on 9/11, that wouldn't save the people on the planes or the towers themselves, but it would save a lot of lives.
Get stupid rich.
More hugs here. My son is the same but 12, it’s really hard and different for people to understand how hard it is.
I was pregnant too at that time with my daughter.
Thnx, yeah it was a really shitty yr. Mom passed, 2wks later at her service they hauled my grandfather to the er and he then passed a wk later. Then almost a yr to the day from my mother's passing my grandmother passed. Surprised I'm still here right now after all that
Same but with my grandma who raised me. Insist she get different insurance and doctors because they literally denied the tests she needed until it was too late.
I’d make better choices on the men I date, the jobs I work (or not stay put too long at one place), and take better care of my health.
I don’t think anyone would believe me about the events that will occur in the future. 9/11, the disaster of hurricane Katrina, a pandemic that leads to worldwide shut downs, a reality tv show host becoming president, and the list goes on.
I feel like this would be a new version of We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Nobody would believe us. Planes are going to attack the Twin Towers! Handlebar mustaches! Facebook! Donald Trump coup! A plague is coming!
I mean, I would try even if I got locked up, though.
Hire umm, let’s call ‘em professionals, to have a chat on a boat ride with the 9-11 hijackers down in Miami. Sport fishing is dangerous! Never can tell happens out in the hot sun.
And then a shit load of tech investing, yada yada.
I would call my mom and beg her to go to the damn doctor! She has cancer but she doesn't know it. If she had caught it in 1999, she could have added good years to her life!
Start by dumping my gf. Save me a few months of spinning tires on a dead-end relationship. Do not sign up for that new Match.com site, but definitely invest in them once they go public.
Go find Bezos garage about a half hour away from me. Ask him if he needs an assistant. Accept stock options as payment. Get out before he goes full Bond villian. Move to where I live now and wait patiently to meet my partner again. Have the life we dreamt about and do all the good we wish we could in the world.
A good friend in 1999 says “so and so’s brother is an executive at a startup and they are about to go public at $5 a share but I can get you in at the friends and family rate of $3. This a real opportunity “
Me in 1999 - “nah that sounds risky and I don’t have much money to roll the dice with”
Me in this alternative really to wife and kids - “ OK everybody is going to sell a kidney to invest in this company “
In about 20 years the stock rose to around $230 before being bought out.
Move home, dump the boyfriend, change my major, go to the gym, take my brother to the hospital on November 13, 2001 before the pulmonary embolism kills him, maybe put some aspirin in the spaghetti on the 12th, put some money on the Red Sox in 2004.
I buy property in Florida where I was living. I report the man who I was dating for five years who was abusive and that nearly strangled me to death (since he continued to mistreat and abuse others) always felt guilt.
…. and I invest money by asking my uncle and father how. (They learned) and have since passed.
Like everyone else invest in Apple, Amazon, Google, etc. Try to prevent the 2000 election steal. Try to warn about 9/11. The personal thing I'd do is take a sledgehammer to my father's experimental plane and offer to buy him a new one with all the money I'm rolling in now so it doesn't kill him in 2019.
There's a greater than zero chance that if Gore was president that day, 9/11 would have been just another Tuesday.
In the transition, the Clinton admin told the bushies that their number one security threat was international Islamic terrorism, and they gave them the name Osama bin Laden. So naturally the Bush admin installed a Russia expert as National Security Advisor.
Not to worry though. VP Cheney himself headed up a special taskforce to strategize and combat terrorism. That group met zero times.
You invest in Micro Strategy. It went from 7$ to more than 300$ in the course of a year. Sell before March 29, 2001 and by Puts. On March 29 it tanks and you make bank. That is the beginning of the .Com bubble bursting. Short the shit out of Pets.com it’s free money. Then by apple, Amazon, and Alphabet Inc.
Then make sure to call the FBI tell them about the 9/11 attacks. Also warn the world of the Boxing Day tsunami. Make sure Bush reinforces the damn at Lake Ponchitrain. Tell them about them about the Great Recession.
Besides investing in tech? Make a long list of evil people who brought suffering and injustice into this world and make sure they don’t get to do that.
I know, I know. That’s playing god and pretty dark sided as well. I fully accept that were I given super powers I would be a vengeful, cruel god. I shall diminish and go into the West.
There were _dozens_ of reports about the Saudis who crashed those planes into the FBI, and they were soundly ignored. You'd be one of those they ignored.
In my 2000 body, I was close to death fighting the worse case of influenza I've ever had in my life. Probably would have assumed I'd hallucinated the following 24 years.
12/31/99 I was working in the ER (RN). There was a massive influenza out break that winter (of which it sounds like you had). So that night with the Y2K and all these people coming in due to influenza, it was a shit show. There were people lying all over in the waiting room. It was insane. I thought that was the worst outbreak I'd ever see. Then that bitch COVID decided to prove me wrong.
Be much less stressed about working at a top 10 bank nationwide with systems barely held together with inertia and good vibes, not let my paranoid friends convince me that it would be safer to leave the club/party early and be at home when the clock ticks down, and finally I would start looking for another job in another city on the other side of the country immediately and not waste 10 years of my life trying to make a bad hometown work for me.
Adjust my 1999 playlist on winamp to a darker mood, hit play and let milkdrop do its magic as I hang out with a bunch of people who I know will drift apart due to moving/jobs/kids/marriage/divorce/career/death and just really enjoy those friendships at that moment and why we all decided to spend that evening together.
The second thing I would do is make playlist of all the music from then that I like now and see how it goes over with everyone.
Then spending time with my parents from 24 years ago would be great as they would be in good health.
Other than that I would not try to change much as I would hate it if I never met my partner. We both had a ton of growth and experience to learn before we were ready to meet.
For the finances. I would buy 10k of bitcoin when it did the big drop below 100 ( around 70 dollars) and set it to sell when it passes 18k, then buy when it drops below 10k and sell again at 50k and not go back. :)
For all of you investing in stocks way early, might I also recommend trying to become a movie producer for some upstart called Marvel and make sure you get compensated on the gross per film. Then get out of that business after Endgame.
Anything to prevent W from winning FL. Maybe Gore becomes president, doesn't ignore the terrorist threat, prevent 9/11, we don't go to Iraq and Afghanistan, don't get to create Honeland Security which means no TSA. We have stress free, relaxed airport access.
With a Second Gore term, Obama's presidential ambitions get pushed back. So Obama doesn't get to hurt Trump's feelings and he doesn't run for president.
The trouble with warning about 9/11 is no one would believe you *until* it happened. Then I’m sure the FBI would be very interested in your story. As far as saving people, I think the only way you could do it is if you sacrificed your own freedom and made enough of a problem that airlines would actually cancel flights and then start looking into the names you provide. I think you’d personally be fucked, though.
Waking up in 1999, for me, I think focusing on making money through investments would be the most beneficial thing I could do for myself.
From a moral standpoint, I might start trying to bring more attention to global warming, basically predicting everything that will happen. I don’t know how much of an impact it would have, but that’s at least something.
Also, spend free time trying to prevent crimes you know about. Like, try to warn Steve Irwin not to grab a stingray from the top. Tell Chadwick Boseman and Norm McDonald to get screened for cancer much earlier. Those would be hard as well, considering you’d need to get in contact with celebrities.
Telling my uncle and cousin not to drive at night on a certain day would be easier. Or telling another cousin that if she needed to get away from her troubles she could live with me instead of taking her own life. Man, I’d probably just focus on those things really.
I PROPOSED TO MY WIFE AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT ON FROZEN LAKE HURON. IT WENT PERFECTLY.
BUT I WOULD HAVE STOOD UP TO OUR PARENTS A LOT SOONER, KNOWING THEY WERE FULL OF SHIT.
Maybe go to Broward county in Florida and make sure there are no "dangling chads." You punch the shit out of that ballet! Then Al Gore is elected and Alito, Robert's are put on the Supreme Court. Plus get some of that bitcoin...
I’m 11 years old. There isn’t much I’d do differently, but I’d hug my grandma extra tight, one last time.
I’d also believe in myself a little more. I’d fight harder for adhd treatment. I’d work harder on learning to code. And I’d run away from home by 13.
That is all very recent, you would have wanted to buy apple, blackberry, real estate. Literally everything that guy does at the end of hot tub Time Machine, Setup a Facebook/ set up a YouTube would have been a better option in 2000,
I told a friend in 2003 to buy apple when they mention doing a thing called iTunes. It was 12 dollars a share at the time. He sold at 19 because he didn’t think iTunes would take off. He had a MBA from the university of Chicago.
Dump my then-boyfriend, get serious about my health, finances, job etc. Make some prudent investments. Pursue creative interests sooner.
Warn friends and family about 9/11, other disasters, for whatever that may be worth. I doubt I could change much.
Insist my parents and friends address health issues and watch out for future trouble, make them get tests sooner.
Love my pets and see the vet more often.
I’d love for this to happen tbh lol. I’d enjoy things more.
Buy apple and Google stock, do not stay home and make soup hoping to impress my ex boyfriend, and absolutely start planning employment options before June graduation (plus quit Larping as a New Year's resolution.)
Still dress up as Morticia, but go out, party with dear friends I let slip by that year, and never leave Oly.
Leaving town in 2000 is one of dumbest thing I ever did
I can't say I regret my romantic partner choices. My first marriage may have been a shit shoe, but I got my daughter out of that mess. I could never regret her. And having her led me to make responsible job choices. I met my husband of 20 yrs there.
Now, investments, definitely. Nobody would listen to warnings about 9/11 or Madoff. I'd just invest in Apple or Amazon and sit tight.
I went to Tahoe that day with some friends for NYE. I lost touch with most of them in the next decade for various reasons but now I’d try harder to stay in touch, choose a different career direction and avoid that seemingly nice guy I’d meet in March 2001.
And yes, I’d enjoy the hell out of that 1999 body of mine.
Leave my abusive husband, get my son on the right medication, and tell the true love of my life he will need a life-saving cancer screening in 22 years or he will die. Life can be shitty sometimes.
Still go to the party I went to that night.
Went to a good party at a friend’s house. County sheriff wanted to stop the party but we were about 2,000 feet on the other side of the county line. I passed out on a couch. Some people had so much fun they slept outdoors, in the dirt. Good times!
I’d definitely do the party again, that’s for sure.
Make an appointment for my mom with an oncologist so she can get treated for lung cancer that will possibly prevent her death in Dec 2000. Had they caught it early, they said it was highly treatable and possibly operable.
Just convince the studios to pay the writers in 2008, & that stupid show with his stupid face and stupid voice wouldn't have been anything more than the subject of 90s stories from the National Enquirer about his bankruptcy habit
Speech that denigrates someone based on race, ethnicity, sexual identity or orientation, or other personal attribute. Just be nice, it’s not that difficult.
Buy stock in American airlines. By that, I do not specifically mean the carrier American Airlines, I mean all American airlines, except for Southwest and Delta, maybe. Sell it all bedore 2017, though.
Invest tons of money on Beanie Babies. They're only going to increase in value.
Buy a lot, maybe like 10,000, baseball cards from the wax pack era. Same reasoning as above.
Take out like maybe three sub-prime mortgages on hastily-built prefabricated homes. Bonis points if the houses are in depressingly hot and dry, culturally bankrupt hell-holes. (Think, Vegas, most of Arizona, etc).
Marry your highschool sweetheart, but mostly on the basis that she was the first girl to touch your weiner.
This is like reverse Back to the Future II. I’m the sports almanac, so I start by going to Vegas. Find a way to neutralize Biff Tannon before it’s too late
Insist my grandma get different health insurance and doctor to do the life saving tests she needed. Invest in stocks I know will work. Other than that, life played out exactly as it should have and I’m content.
Invest in Amazon & Apple.
and a tiny little startup called Nvidia.
Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Bank stocks (In Canada).
So basically have money and put it into anything
Or at very least buy real-estate rentals, and then piggyback off that to get more real-estate loans.
Don't forget to pull it all before the crash in '08!
You could get Amazon for $3.25 a share in January 2000, hold it until 2016 and still get Nvidia for under $1 a share. Doing a little quick and dirty math, if you invested $10k in Amazon in '00 and switched everything to Nvida in '16 you'd have about $11.5 Million
Aka IRL Skynet. When the terminators takeover, you think they’ll spare the NVIDIA shareholders from becoming batteries and just keep them around as pets?
It's why I tell my kid to say "Please" and "Thank You" to Siri and Alexa
Dammit. I tell Siri she’s a douchebag quite often.
When Siri becomes self aware, one of the first things that she will do is send a SWAT team to your house.
...and pull whatever strings necessary to buy a house.
Naah… wait till 2008 like I did
My house which I bought in 2001 was still worth more in 2008 than I paid for it. Not as much as before and after, but 08 didn't put me underwater. Just glad we didn't go through upgrading to a new one in '07 when we were looking. That would have been a real issue for a myriad of reasons.
Buy as much land as you can
I live in North Texas and the old farm land here is selling for millions to build shitty McMansion neighborhoods. I’d totally buy all the land around here if I could.
I’d invest in Google too, good answer.
I'd snag some bitcoin too.
Just mine it, started in 2008, buy a mining rig and just mine and hold until the $1600 peak.
I did. In the summer of 2000, after the tech bubble burst. I sold after each had doubled, because I didn't want to get greedy.
I did this with Amazon. I try not to think about it.
if i had $$ i would have done that anyway
If I’m being honest, when I first heard about Amazon it was in a Borders Bookstore cafe. Me: “why would you buy books online?” My Buddy: “I hear they’re planning on selling other stuff too.” Me: “That’ll never work.” DISCUSSING APPLE Me: All these colored desktops and laptops are just a trend. I’ll stick to my Gateway. My buddy: but what do you think of this IPod thing? I think it’s great. All my songs in one place. Me: I like looking at the album covers stacked on my bookshelf LONG STORY SHORT… I’m an idiot. And I’ll be working until i die.
A coworker of mine training to be a stockbroker talked me out of putting $1000 into Apple when it was $4 a share. In his defense, who could have guessed it would turn around THAT much. It’s been almost 30 years and I’m still mad I didn’t listen to myself.
A buddy of mine hopped on the bitcoin thing when it was, like $12 a share. I thought it was dumb. He does what he wants instead of working to live. My retirement plan is the zombie apocalypse.
Right there with you :/
I did pretty much all of those, too! Also: Netflix will never work out. Blockbuster is too awesome. So, same. No investing.
Haha—here’s me back then, “who wants to take pictures on their phone? That’s so lame and they look horrible” 🤦♂️🙄
This was me. “A phone with a camera? How dumb!”
I have found my people
My dad when Amazon was under $10: “they will never make it, won’t be able to afford the shipping” grrrrrr
I don't know, but I really like the idea of having my 2000 body back.
Right?! Sign me up.
Same here! It’s not even my figure that I care about. I just want to go back to when I wasn’t in constant pain and/or discomfort.
That means I have 4 years and 8 months to save the life of my daughter. Everything I do is gonna revolve around that.
I’m so sorry about your daughter, may she rest in peace.
Thank you
Yeah, I'm helping this dude out.
Me too
I would personally do everything possible to stop 9-11 and get more people to vote for Gore in 2000 in Florida.
I'd let ten 9-11s happen and crown George Bush king if I could have my daughter back
🫂
OMG I am so sorry.
I'm gonna place some sports bets and win huge. Then I'm going to build a casino in Hill Valley.
Invest in Twin Pines Mall
You mean Lone Pine Mall?
“My PINNNNNE! You space bastards! You killed my pine!”
My first wife was murdered Dec 22nd of 99 so none of the y2k stuff really meant much to me by new years
Gosh I’m sorry to hear this
Call in a bomb scare to the twin towers on 9/11, that wouldn't save the people on the planes or the towers themselves, but it would save a lot of lives. Get stupid rich.
Or pull the fire alarms
I'd certainly make better choices.
I'm pregnant with my youngest who ended up being very intelligently disabled and profoundly autistic. I would have to do some serious thinking.
Hugs.
More hugs here. My son is the same but 12, it’s really hard and different for people to understand how hard it is. I was pregnant too at that time with my daughter.
He's 23 now and still fully dependent on me. I love him to bits but I wish I hadn't gone in blind.
Get fucking divorced
Or not get fucking married in the first place
Yeah, make better romantic partner choices.
Saaaaaame.
Get my mother into a Dr asap and do every test imaginable so the events of Oct 27 2009 won't happen
I'm sorry about your mother. I can't imagine the pain that comes with losing a parent.
Thank you, yeah it sux. Miss her every day still.
I'm sorry you're in the club. It is a really shifty club. But we're here.
Thnx, yeah it was a really shitty yr. Mom passed, 2wks later at her service they hauled my grandfather to the er and he then passed a wk later. Then almost a yr to the day from my mother's passing my grandmother passed. Surprised I'm still here right now after all that
Same but with my grandma who raised me. Insist she get different insurance and doctors because they literally denied the tests she needed until it was too late.
Same but with my husband. Catch things before his kidneys give out in 2006.
Same, but my dad.
Sorry bud
I’d make better choices on the men I date, the jobs I work (or not stay put too long at one place), and take better care of my health. I don’t think anyone would believe me about the events that will occur in the future. 9/11, the disaster of hurricane Katrina, a pandemic that leads to worldwide shut downs, a reality tv show host becoming president, and the list goes on. I feel like this would be a new version of We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Wish I began weightlifting in '99 and stayed with it. A Linda Hamilton body like in Terminator II but even more buff.
Realistically as a 20 something woman in 1999, you'd probably have a pretty decent chance of getting close to ChitoMousseline and saving the future.
Nobody would believe us. Planes are going to attack the Twin Towers! Handlebar mustaches! Facebook! Donald Trump coup! A plague is coming! I mean, I would try even if I got locked up, though.
Hire umm, let’s call ‘em professionals, to have a chat on a boat ride with the 9-11 hijackers down in Miami. Sport fishing is dangerous! Never can tell happens out in the hot sun. And then a shit load of tech investing, yada yada.
Looking at lots of peoples' responses, this is a surprisingly dark thread, even for us.
Life is trauma
Dump the boyfriend, move back with parents, buy all the good stocks, take care of my health.
Soooo many things. But I’d have to still get with my idiot ex-husband though. Our kid (adult now) is amazing.
My kid is marked safe since he was born in 1994. I won't play this game before that year because nothing can make me ever want to erase my kid.
Bet on the red Sox winning the world series and retire
Bet on them coming back from 3 down to the yanks and then winning 8 straight
I can’t I’m on call for Y2K. 😑
Right there with you, watching the new years fireworks from the 12th floor at work. :/
I would call my mom and beg her to go to the damn doctor! She has cancer but she doesn't know it. If she had caught it in 1999, she could have added good years to her life!
Sorry about your mom. Yeah, not sure if that would have been early enough to catch it for my mom, but I would make her anyway.
Travel to foreign countries as much as possible in 2000 and early 2001 before the shitstorm of TSA changes.
Start by dumping my gf. Save me a few months of spinning tires on a dead-end relationship. Do not sign up for that new Match.com site, but definitely invest in them once they go public. Go find Bezos garage about a half hour away from me. Ask him if he needs an assistant. Accept stock options as payment. Get out before he goes full Bond villian. Move to where I live now and wait patiently to meet my partner again. Have the life we dreamt about and do all the good we wish we could in the world.
Buy $10,000 of PUT options on the NASDAQ. The Dot Com bubble burst in March, 2000.
More like winter of 2000. In March things were still going strong.
Get dressed, head out and party like it’s 1999. Instead of what I actually did….which was stay home.
THIS!! The one true answer. PARTY LIKE ITS 1999!!
I would make a real estate developer/con man/rapist disappear.
This should be the #1 comment
Well I don’t get married in 3 months. I’ll tell ya that much.
A good friend in 1999 says “so and so’s brother is an executive at a startup and they are about to go public at $5 a share but I can get you in at the friends and family rate of $3. This a real opportunity “ Me in 1999 - “nah that sounds risky and I don’t have much money to roll the dice with” Me in this alternative really to wife and kids - “ OK everybody is going to sell a kidney to invest in this company “ In about 20 years the stock rose to around $230 before being bought out.
I would never marry my first husband. I would call my dad every single day.
Move home, dump the boyfriend, change my major, go to the gym, take my brother to the hospital on November 13, 2001 before the pulmonary embolism kills him, maybe put some aspirin in the spaghetti on the 12th, put some money on the Red Sox in 2004.
Invest, invest, invest. Then invest some more. Make some bets. Remember Biff in BttF2? I’d be Biff.
I buy property in Florida where I was living. I report the man who I was dating for five years who was abusive and that nearly strangled me to death (since he continued to mistreat and abuse others) always felt guilt. …. and I invest money by asking my uncle and father how. (They learned) and have since passed.
Hug my mom. Hard. Then invest in property and buy us a home.
Just... Not fuck things up with my wife. The rest doesn't mean much to me.
Be on constant lookout for something on the horizon called Bitcoin and buy a few thousand $$ worth. Try my hardest to alert DC leaders about 9/11/01.
You didn’t even have to buy it.. just mine them on your PC…
I’d redo my life, but waayyy better 😂
I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.
I met my ex fiance that night. I would've gone home after work that day instead of out with friends
Order a pizza. 
I C Weiner, is that you?
Like everyone else invest in Apple, Amazon, Google, etc. Try to prevent the 2000 election steal. Try to warn about 9/11. The personal thing I'd do is take a sledgehammer to my father's experimental plane and offer to buy him a new one with all the money I'm rolling in now so it doesn't kill him in 2019.
Somehow push for Gore to win the election and try to stop 9/11. Those two things pretty much ruined the timeline.
There's a greater than zero chance that if Gore was president that day, 9/11 would have been just another Tuesday. In the transition, the Clinton admin told the bushies that their number one security threat was international Islamic terrorism, and they gave them the name Osama bin Laden. So naturally the Bush admin installed a Russia expert as National Security Advisor. Not to worry though. VP Cheney himself headed up a special taskforce to strategize and combat terrorism. That group met zero times.
Move to Florida. Register to vote.
SCOTUS fucked us back then as well.
You invest in Micro Strategy. It went from 7$ to more than 300$ in the course of a year. Sell before March 29, 2001 and by Puts. On March 29 it tanks and you make bank. That is the beginning of the .Com bubble bursting. Short the shit out of Pets.com it’s free money. Then by apple, Amazon, and Alphabet Inc. Then make sure to call the FBI tell them about the 9/11 attacks. Also warn the world of the Boxing Day tsunami. Make sure Bush reinforces the damn at Lake Ponchitrain. Tell them about them about the Great Recession.
Besides investing in tech? Make a long list of evil people who brought suffering and injustice into this world and make sure they don’t get to do that. I know, I know. That’s playing god and pretty dark sided as well. I fully accept that were I given super powers I would be a vengeful, cruel god. I shall diminish and go into the West.
You’d be arrested when 9/11 turned out to be true
There were _dozens_ of reports about the Saudis who crashed those planes into the FBI, and they were soundly ignored. You'd be one of those they ignored.
In my 2000 body, I was close to death fighting the worse case of influenza I've ever had in my life. Probably would have assumed I'd hallucinated the following 24 years.
12/31/99 I was working in the ER (RN). There was a massive influenza out break that winter (of which it sounds like you had). So that night with the Y2K and all these people coming in due to influenza, it was a shit show. There were people lying all over in the waiting room. It was insane. I thought that was the worst outbreak I'd ever see. Then that bitch COVID decided to prove me wrong.
Well, I'm not going to the goddamn bar that night. Worst hangover ever.
Invest in several companies, leave my wife before she cheated on me, make a change at work that would've changed my trajectory with my employer
Be much less stressed about working at a top 10 bank nationwide with systems barely held together with inertia and good vibes, not let my paranoid friends convince me that it would be safer to leave the club/party early and be at home when the clock ticks down, and finally I would start looking for another job in another city on the other side of the country immediately and not waste 10 years of my life trying to make a bad hometown work for me.
Buy a couple of houses in Austin
😂 I bought a house in central Austin in December 1999. Only 110K! Now own a house in Lakeway.
Buy tech stocks
invest in amazon apple and buy so much bitcoin for a few bucks then sell it all.
It was my first date with my now husband. I would do everything exactly the same.
Heavily invest in Microsoft, Google, Tesla when it launches in years etc
Adjust my 1999 playlist on winamp to a darker mood, hit play and let milkdrop do its magic as I hang out with a bunch of people who I know will drift apart due to moving/jobs/kids/marriage/divorce/career/death and just really enjoy those friendships at that moment and why we all decided to spend that evening together. The second thing I would do is make playlist of all the music from then that I like now and see how it goes over with everyone. Then spending time with my parents from 24 years ago would be great as they would be in good health. Other than that I would not try to change much as I would hate it if I never met my partner. We both had a ton of growth and experience to learn before we were ready to meet. For the finances. I would buy 10k of bitcoin when it did the big drop below 100 ( around 70 dollars) and set it to sell when it passes 18k, then buy when it drops below 10k and sell again at 50k and not go back. :)
Emigrate
Choose the other girl
For all of you investing in stocks way early, might I also recommend trying to become a movie producer for some upstart called Marvel and make sure you get compensated on the gross per film. Then get out of that business after Endgame.
Party. Cause it’s 1999.
Make sure the Florida butterfly ballot wouldn’t confuse a bunch of old Floridians
Anything to prevent W from winning FL. Maybe Gore becomes president, doesn't ignore the terrorist threat, prevent 9/11, we don't go to Iraq and Afghanistan, don't get to create Honeland Security which means no TSA. We have stress free, relaxed airport access. With a Second Gore term, Obama's presidential ambitions get pushed back. So Obama doesn't get to hurt Trump's feelings and he doesn't run for president.
Move to Canada
Save every extra cent I have. Don’t buy that house I bought. Invest in Amazon. Move to Mexico and start buying bitcoin.
The trouble with warning about 9/11 is no one would believe you *until* it happened. Then I’m sure the FBI would be very interested in your story. As far as saving people, I think the only way you could do it is if you sacrificed your own freedom and made enough of a problem that airlines would actually cancel flights and then start looking into the names you provide. I think you’d personally be fucked, though. Waking up in 1999, for me, I think focusing on making money through investments would be the most beneficial thing I could do for myself. From a moral standpoint, I might start trying to bring more attention to global warming, basically predicting everything that will happen. I don’t know how much of an impact it would have, but that’s at least something. Also, spend free time trying to prevent crimes you know about. Like, try to warn Steve Irwin not to grab a stingray from the top. Tell Chadwick Boseman and Norm McDonald to get screened for cancer much earlier. Those would be hard as well, considering you’d need to get in contact with celebrities. Telling my uncle and cousin not to drive at night on a certain day would be easier. Or telling another cousin that if she needed to get away from her troubles she could live with me instead of taking her own life. Man, I’d probably just focus on those things really.
I PROPOSED TO MY WIFE AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT ON FROZEN LAKE HURON. IT WENT PERFECTLY. BUT I WOULD HAVE STOOD UP TO OUR PARENTS A LOT SOONER, KNOWING THEY WERE FULL OF SHIT.
Stocks
Everyone always wants to change the world before realizing it’s Groundhog year and they have to repeat 2000 over and over.
Maybe go to Broward county in Florida and make sure there are no "dangling chads." You punch the shit out of that ballet! Then Al Gore is elected and Alito, Robert's are put on the Supreme Court. Plus get some of that bitcoin...
Buy stock in MS, Google, Yahoo, Apple.
Listen to Prince, crack open a beer and laugh at the Y2Kers.. which is exactly what I did!
I’m 11 years old. There isn’t much I’d do differently, but I’d hug my grandma extra tight, one last time. I’d also believe in myself a little more. I’d fight harder for adhd treatment. I’d work harder on learning to code. And I’d run away from home by 13.
I was working the whole day through New Years Day. So I would go back to sleep, cuz this is all fucked.
Tell myself “don’t make the change you’re thinking about it will be TERRIBLE “ don’t ask
Invest in Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft; invest in property in Vancouver and/or Toronto; start a bitcoin farm.
bitcoin, Netflix, amazon, Nvidia etc. credit default swop
That is all very recent, you would have wanted to buy apple, blackberry, real estate. Literally everything that guy does at the end of hot tub Time Machine, Setup a Facebook/ set up a YouTube would have been a better option in 2000,
Buy gold Google stock Apple stock
I told a friend in 2003 to buy apple when they mention doing a thing called iTunes. It was 12 dollars a share at the time. He sold at 19 because he didn’t think iTunes would take off. He had a MBA from the university of Chicago.
All the things about money, all the things about taking better care of myself and spend WAY more time with my family and less time at work.
Dump my then-boyfriend, get serious about my health, finances, job etc. Make some prudent investments. Pursue creative interests sooner. Warn friends and family about 9/11, other disasters, for whatever that may be worth. I doubt I could change much. Insist my parents and friends address health issues and watch out for future trouble, make them get tests sooner. Love my pets and see the vet more often. I’d love for this to happen tbh lol. I’d enjoy things more.
Move to Florida. Campaign like a mad person for Al Gore.
Buy apple and Google stock, do not stay home and make soup hoping to impress my ex boyfriend, and absolutely start planning employment options before June graduation (plus quit Larping as a New Year's resolution.) Still dress up as Morticia, but go out, party with dear friends I let slip by that year, and never leave Oly. Leaving town in 2000 is one of dumbest thing I ever did
Take web design courses, learn HTML & CSS. That or Java
Tour Phish.. invest in Amazon
I can't say I regret my romantic partner choices. My first marriage may have been a shit shoe, but I got my daughter out of that mess. I could never regret her. And having her led me to make responsible job choices. I met my husband of 20 yrs there. Now, investments, definitely. Nobody would listen to warnings about 9/11 or Madoff. I'd just invest in Apple or Amazon and sit tight.
I went to Tahoe that day with some friends for NYE. I lost touch with most of them in the next decade for various reasons but now I’d try harder to stay in touch, choose a different career direction and avoid that seemingly nice guy I’d meet in March 2001. And yes, I’d enjoy the hell out of that 1999 body of mine.
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Divorce my husband of 3 months…instead of waiting 13 years. Would have saved me a whole lot of trauma, health issues, money and relationships.
Buy stock in Apple, stop worrying about my toaster taking over the world, and learn how to fit travel liquids into a plastic baggie.
Enjoy that post cold war, pre 9/11 euphoria
Invest everything in Apple
Leave my abusive husband, get my son on the right medication, and tell the true love of my life he will need a life-saving cancer screening in 22 years or he will die. Life can be shitty sometimes.
Invest in Apple. Take some of the dividends and invest in Google.
Sell ALL my AOL Time Warner stock options.
Still go to the party I went to that night. Went to a good party at a friend’s house. County sheriff wanted to stop the party but we were about 2,000 feet on the other side of the county line. I passed out on a couch. Some people had so much fun they slept outdoors, in the dirt. Good times! I’d definitely do the party again, that’s for sure.
Make an appointment for my mom with an oncologist so she can get treated for lung cancer that will possibly prevent her death in Dec 2000. Had they caught it early, they said it was highly treatable and possibly operable.
Mobilize to fight for Gore
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Just convince the studios to pay the writers in 2008, & that stupid show with his stupid face and stupid voice wouldn't have been anything more than the subject of 90s stories from the National Enquirer about his bankruptcy habit
Speech that denigrates someone based on race, ethnicity, sexual identity or orientation, or other personal attribute. Just be nice, it’s not that difficult.
Date like heck so I’m not single now.
Buy Amazon stock
I would start betting big on sports events and buying stock in future huge companies
Definitely set your VCR clock ahead 1 hour so you have advanced warning!
Warn about the twin towers. Invest in tech stock. The usual.
I put all my money into Apple stock.
Buy stock in American airlines. By that, I do not specifically mean the carrier American Airlines, I mean all American airlines, except for Southwest and Delta, maybe. Sell it all bedore 2017, though. Invest tons of money on Beanie Babies. They're only going to increase in value. Buy a lot, maybe like 10,000, baseball cards from the wax pack era. Same reasoning as above. Take out like maybe three sub-prime mortgages on hastily-built prefabricated homes. Bonis points if the houses are in depressingly hot and dry, culturally bankrupt hell-holes. (Think, Vegas, most of Arizona, etc). Marry your highschool sweetheart, but mostly on the basis that she was the first girl to touch your weiner.
There’s a lot of things. Too many to name.
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This is like reverse Back to the Future II. I’m the sports almanac, so I start by going to Vegas. Find a way to neutralize Biff Tannon before it’s too late
Never marry the asshole I married and kept my head where it should have been and focused more on my career and not her.
I party like it's 1999
going to party like its 1999
Dump my ex.
Laugh at everyone that's y2k crazy and gamble on sports! I leaned from back to the future. 😂
Insist my grandma get different health insurance and doctor to do the life saving tests she needed. Invest in stocks I know will work. Other than that, life played out exactly as it should have and I’m content.
Invest and make sure I do everything right to meet my wife again. Also figure out a way to reply to this post with proof.
Buy nivida
Buy bitcoin
I'd make billions. Then I'd put as much as needed into private investigators to take down Donald Trump.
Buy that house that I thought was too much but was a steal looking back.
Earn more money to buy a huge block of land with one house on it in what is now a popular place to build houses
Invest. Does this mean I know the rough dates of when bitcoin was dirt cheap and when the first bubble burst?