What if You woke up in 1995?

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Here's a scenario , You wake up in the year 1995. What do You do?
Remember , Internet then was a luxury of the rich , and was very basic ( could only read and receive information , and shopping online was a new thing , no games or videos or fun stuff )
Playstation 1 had only just come about.
Google and most other things You use daily on the Internet did not yet exist or were very primitive.
Bill Clinton is the President of the US and likewise John Major is the prime minister of the UK.
9/11 has not yet happened.
Mobile phones were clunky and they hadn't evolved past the antenna yet.
Laptops are also a luxury enjoyed by few.
Tvs are mostly grey and clunky.
School classrooms are using blackboards/whiteboards.
The mainstream music of the time is pop.
Big girl and boy bands dominated the scene.

I did wake up in 1995. In fact I woke up 365 time in that year.

Buy as many evil looking ("assault weapons") firearms as possible.

Don't hand them in a few years later.

Rejoice!! (And worry about what had happened, it wouldn't exactly be a natural thing to wake up in the past lol!)

I would still have two of my most beloved pets, my grandfather would be alive, I wouldn't have heard of AS. I would turn 18 that year and I still had hopes at the time. There was still time to change some of the mistakes I have made.

Please let me wake up in 1995!

Why you whippersnapper! Don't you go and tell me what 1995 looked like!! I was there!! Were you?

But seriously, if some freak space-temporal phenomenon would cause me to wake up in 1995 tomorrow, armed w/ the knowledge of what is going to transpire in the next 18 years, I would try to just have a good time. Much would depend on my state of being, housing, livelihood etcetera, but for the sake of the thread, I'm going to assume I'll be in approximately the same position in re:1995 as I am now in 2013, namely looking for a cleaning job and living with a 'benefactor'. So, I'd just pick up from there. Hell, the coolest thing is probably that I can re-live the emergence of Timbaland, Aaliyah, Missy, and Ginuwine. Am I gonna try and prevent any of the deaths that I know about, especially terrorist attacks, traffic accidents, and the high death tolls of natural disasters [as in, send out the advance warning]? I hate to say it, but I don't know. That does reek a lot of tampering with the flow of things. But what the hell, the more I think about it, the more I would do whatever I can to help prevent most of the deaths I have knowledge of.

Also, I would prevent the Transformers' live-action movies from being made the way Bay made them. They'd be much more closer to the 80s cartoon.

aside from Bill Clinton and the music of the time and the Red Wings were hot (with the russian 5 ...the harlem globetrotter on ice is what i called them) ... i really wouldn't wanna go back to 95.

maybe a different year...like... the 80s. now there's stuff i would like to see again from the 80s. local stores. see how Detroit was then compared to now. I know it was bad...but not super bad like it is now.

Please NO! A lot of bad thing happened that year.

Beat Mark Zuckerberg to the invention of Facebook.

I would also "invent" Kazaa and Skype before anyone else.

Wikipedia would be my brainchild, too.

So would Firefox, Chrome, and Java.

Then, after becoming the wealthiest man in the world, I'd put out a contract out on Osama bin Laden, warn all of the media outlets about the events of September 11, 2001, and proclaim the utter lack of Iraq's "Weapons of Mass Destruction".

I would go back to sleep and hope I wake up in current times. I lived through 1995. I wouldn't want to go back again.

I will admit that I like the less technologically connected world of the nineties. It is funny to watch all the zombies passing by in current times with smartphones plastered to their heads. It's not so funny when the same zombies cause accidents.

Buy a F-Kton of Apple stock!(approx $37-$38/share then)
and a bunch of gold, it was about $385/oz back then.
Oh yeah, and real estate.

Then listen some White Zombie and play some Quake.

Now, wait a minute, what if some of us were already alive in 1995? I was, but I was a little kid, so I don't remember much of it. Will my four-year-old self still be around as well as my current self? Won't my 1995-era parents wonder how I grew eighteen years overnight?

I guess, if something like that happened, the first thing I'd do is go out and explore my community, take in how it was different in 1995 versus 2013.

Knowing what I know now?
Best to avoid the time travel thing as I'd be staring at 25 to life.

I remember the days of teachers taking attendance and once of the students had to take it to the office. Teachers were also using overheads, teachers sent notes homes to parents and parents called the teacher to have a meeting with them in their classroom or write a letter to them or teachers calling the parents on the phone, in the library they would put a due date stamp in your book after scanning the tab on it. My school got the internet a year later and kids needed permission from their parents to use it and each kid had to out their ID tag on the computer when using the internet. We also used laptops but special needs students had them for their school work. My mom was still taking me to the library for research for my homework. Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo were popular. Nickelodeon was a great channel then and Disney was still a subscription channel.


If I woke up in 1995, I think I would have a drive around remembering how my area used to look and Clackamas Town center before they took out the ice skating rink and remodeling the mall and oh boy flying was cheaper then and not a nuisance because we didn't have all that security crap and extra luggage fees and restricted carry ons. I could remember in 1995 they were doing construction at the Portland airport. I was nine and ten years old that year and in the 3rd and 4th grade.

lol

wish I remember all the lotto numbers

I just assumed that I would be back in my at the time 17 or 18 year old self, but be the 36 year old me on the inside.

I was 4 years old in '95. I was obsessed with the show Dinosaurs and the Beetlejuice cartoon, my mom was a waitress working the night shift at a restaurant, and I had just gotten over a phase where I had stopped eating for a year because the birth of my baby brother exacerbated my anxiety. (I did love him though. Always have. He and I are the very best of friends now.)

Other than that, I don't remember too much about '95.