i'd write everything shakespeare did before he did
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I've always wondered about this kind of theory. If I stole and published Harry Potter before JK Rowling will it be as successful? If I do the beatles' songs before them will they be a hit?
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I want to say leave a modern computer or some other piece of technology at some point in time (maybe 50's) but I'm not sure if it could be reversed engineered
Even if it had infinite power and was unbreakable, it would end up being fought over and coveted as holy relic, instead of being played with and studied
Hardly. The miniaturization required to make modern chips is ages ahead of anything possible in the 50s or 60s. Hell, them even getting some x-ray microscope to see the stupidly small transistors we have today would be a challenge in itself!
Killing Bill Gates. It would be a weird timeline, maybe Microsoft would still exist, but in a different shape.
Microsemi. A slightly more over-medium version of our operating systems.
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I'd love to see Socrates as modern day politician
You should hitch a ride with Bill and Ted
I would go back in time and arrange Genghis Khan to have a better father.
Bring a time machine with you and teach ancient Egyptians how to use it
I'd bring a universal encyclopedia to the mesopotamians.
Teaching Abraham Lincoln how to do egirl makeup and being a femboy.