If you could go back in time...

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Either the 1980's or 1993. I say 1993 because I would like to know what it was like on the year that I was born.

Pre historic times so I can see the cave men, especially the homo-habillis.

Early 1930's, Providence Rhode Island USA, to have tea with H.P. Lovecraft.

I'd see William Shakespeare and tell him how famous his works are in the twenty-first century, as well as many other things. If he could understand the English I was speaking...

I'd look up some old Powerball numbers and go back far enough to cash them in.

Oh boy, where wouldn’t I go??!
I’d go back to the beginning and see Big Bang.
I’d go back some billion years and see the solar system form.
I’d go see the dinos and bring some back with me. Start a dino farm, OR (cackle-cackle) just release them in the wild. Some of the big mammals would also be nice.
I’d visit the Neanderthals and while there check out just how autistic they were!
I’d see Hiroshima and the detonating of Ivy Mike and RDS-37. (yeah I’m sick!)
Can I add space to this topic? I’d see the Moon landing, the Vikings on Mars, the fate of the probes investigating Venus and the Sojourner robot’s landing and journeys on Mars.
I’d see Concorde’s test flights.
I'd stop myself from selling "Snake rattle and roll" for NES, and from lending "Excite bike" to a guy in my class who never returned it.
And I’d go back to a time of big lottery pot and send in the winning numbers.

On a more serious note:
I’d also spend time with my grandparents and my collie when they were healthy as well as being more there for them in their last time of life.

I suppose the greatest good would be to go back and stop Marx from writing the Communist Manifesto. By actually finding him a job, for instance.

Everyone treats space-travel as part of time-travel anyway, it's generally assumed that not only does one travel back in time, one precisely follows the Earth (or wherever) along its path through space. It'd be kinda unfortunate to travel back in time a day and find yourself dangling in the infinite void.

Go back and get Hitler an art scholarship to see if that would stop him from turning into a psychopathic mass murderer.

Failing that, I'd shoot him.

and let the Nazis know the Allies figured out the enigma code? Good one! Now we're all saying "seig heil!" to the flag that once had the stars and bars.

Me, personally? Upstate New York, August of 1969.

I would go back to a time before modern societies existed, when people were first learning how to think like modern humans. Things were very hard back then but also sound very simple. You eat, you sleep, you simply survive. It wouldn't be boring because I wouldn't know any different. I wouldn't have the pressures on me that I do today. I wouldn't be such an outcast & a failure in both my own & societies eyes.

A selfish wish: I would go back to a time when I was not even conceived and stay there.

It’s “sieg”, not “seig”.

We wouldn’t necessarily do that. Oh, Europe would likely have fallen, but all dictatorships (and for that matter all democracies) fall sooner or later.

I wouldn’t wanna change history. Our timeline is based on it and who knows what would’ve happened if it hadn’t? Maybe I wasn’t born, maybe we’d end up with an even worse dictatorship or nuclear war?

And if I could change history, then what? Let’s take the classic example. Say I went back in time to kill Hitler. I’m from a timeline where Hitler wasn’t killed and I remember learning about it in school and other places. So if I killed him, would I then travel back to the same present as now, while creating a parallell timeline where WW2 and Holocaust never took place? A parallell timeline I couldn’t join since I know what ‘really’ happened. Or would I go back to a future in which he never went political and no one knew who he was? If so, would I remember him, remember killing him, or would it be blanked from my memory?

I will publish those best seller books ahead of time...

If I could only observe I'd be on a beach in Normandy on June 6th 1944.

If I could interfere as well and change the course of history.... I wouldn't want to go too far back because the unintended consequences would increase exponentially. I actually thought about this. I'd go back in time to November 21st 1963 and tell Kennedy not to travel to Dallas. Lots of today's issues can be directly traced back to his assasination.

After winning a jackpot, I'd go back to buy two cars when they were new: A Chevy 57 Bel Air and a VW Beetle, and bring them with me to the present where they'd still be new and ready to last for the rest of my life. The Beetle would, anyway...