If you had a time machine....

[Svengoolie 3]

... What would you do?

Icd go back and make sure elon musk never developed PayPal.  Maybe in a world wthout paypal I could actually get some good deals on the net once in a while.

[LilCerberus]

I'd smack the snot outa John Dewey....

[indianasmith]

I'd pack up a load of decent antibiotics and modern medicines, cure the abscess on Henry VII's knee, and get myself a nice country manor and title of nobility for my pains!

Or maybe I'd go back and make sure that Caesar DIDN'T die on the Ides of March, just to see how that would have changed history.

Or slipped a dagger between the ribs of John Wilkes Booth as he made his way to Ford's theater.

Maybe jogged Aaron Burr's elbow just as he  pulled the trigger at a certain infamous duel?


The possibilities are endless!

[Allhallowsday]

I'd pack up a load of decent antibiotics and modern medicines, cure the abscess on Henry VII's knee, and get myself a nice country manor and title of nobility for my pains!
Or maybe I'd go back and make sure that Caesar DIDN'T die on the Ides of March, just to see how that would have changed history.
Or slipped a dagger between the ribs of John Wilkes Booth as he made his way to Ford's theater.
Maybe jogged Aaron Burr's elbow just as he  pulled the trigger at a certain infamous duel?
The possibilities are endless!

Yes, but going back in time to change history would be wrong.  After all, why not save Jesus? 

[AoTFan]

I'd pack up a load of decent antibiotics and modern medicines, cure the abscess on Henry VII's knee, and get myself a nice country manor and title of nobility for my pains!

Or maybe I'd go back and make sure that Caesar DIDN'T die on the Ides of March, just to see how that would have changed history.

Or slipped a dagger between the ribs of John Wilkes Booth as he made his way to Ford's theater.

Maybe jogged Aaron Burr's elbow just as he  pulled the trigger at a certain infamous duel?

The possibilities are endless!

Wow, and here I am thinking of selfish s**t like, "Tell my younger self to invest in Google and/or Bitcoin...." 

[LilCerberus]

In a way, I'd be tempted to warn Henry Ford about the problems he's going to cause by instilling a sense of entitlement to the masses for personal transportation, whether they can afford it or not, whether they need it or not, whether they're qualified to operate it or not, or even if they've been legally blocked from operating it... Maybe trow in some obsequious BS about smog alerts, global warming & the like.........

But knowing he was just a greedy little SOB who hated his own son, abandoned his parents farm, stabbed all his business partners in the back, and made money off both the Allies "AND" the Nazis during WWII, he'd probably just laugh it off...

So I guess I'd just shoot that Irish thug he'd hire to trash his son's house, then smack the snot outa him...

[indianasmith]

I'd pack up a load of decent antibiotics and modern medicines, cure the abscess on Henry VII's knee, and get myself a nice country manor and title of nobility for my pains!
Or maybe I'd go back and make sure that Caesar DIDN'T die on the Ides of March, just to see how that would have changed history.
Or slipped a dagger between the ribs of John Wilkes Booth as he made his way to Ford's theater.
Maybe jogged Aaron Burr's elbow just as he  pulled the trigger at a certain infamous duel?
The possibilities are endless!

Yes, but going back in time to change history would be wrong.  After all, why not save Jesus? 

But if I succeeded, it's already happened, so it would be neither right nor wrong - it would simply BE.

As for your latter question - If Jesus was saved from the cross, we couldn't be saved from hell.

[Trevor]

I would probably go back in time and murder my birth parents but then I wouldn't be born, so 

I would stop all manner of tragic things happening:

1. Be Princess Diana's driver on 31 August 1997 and get her safely home.
2. Alert all authorities in the USA about the calamity and horrors of 9/11: also all of the terrorists would have been apprehended and almost 3000 lives would not have been lost.

[Pacman000]

Changing history never seems to work. If you try to warn someone they never believe you; if you try to change things yourself you become the bad guy.

I might do some small things. I wanted a Geocities account, but they closed. I suppose I'd get one. (Actually, Geocities Japan is still open, but it'll close in March, so there's no point.)

I might observe some ancient things. Dinosaurs might be cool. Jesus's life, ancient, Rome, Greece, Israel, China, etc. But a lot of places wouldn't accept me; I'd be out of place. I'd need some great disguises, or invisibility. And to make sense of anything I'd need to learn a ton of languages. Perhaps it would be best to send teams of experts with covert video cameras.

It might be nice to save wiped TV shows or lost films. Go to the 50's with a TiVo; set up a theater in the 20's & make telecine copies of whatever I rented.

And there's no harm in investing, or even betting. You have to pay for all this somehow.

[RCMerchant]

I'd go back to about 1975 and watch the first Ramones set at CBGB's.

[Alex]

Last Tuesday so I could pay my phone bill on time.

(Stolen from Weird Al).

[RCMerchant]

If you change s**t-you never know. You could end up with a dictator as President of the USA, when you go home.
Or have people hypnotized by a mass worldwide computer network. Like some cheezy sci-fi movie. Kinda like Rome and feeding slaves to lions. Keep 'em distracted!

...oh wait a minute.... 

[FatFreddysCat]

I'd go back to about 1975 and watch the first Ramones set at CBGB's.

That's a good one. Count me in.  

There are soooo many concerts I would go to if I had a time machine!

...I'd go to a vintage '70s KISS show - say, the Hotter Than Hell tour or thereabouts, when they were still young & hungry and hadn't really broke big yet -  early RUSH opened for them frequently back then!

...I'd also want to see AC/DC when Bon Scott was still on vocals.

...I'd hit every show of Metallica's first tour of the U.S. in 1983, when they were opening for Raven. (the infamous "Kill'Em All For One" tour).

...Oh, and I'd wanna see each Black Sabbath lineup at least once, especially with Ronnie James Dio, cuz I never got to see Dio in person.

[claws]

I want to see live action dinosaurs so I'd be heading in that direction.

[Rev. Powell]

I'd pack up a load of decent antibiotics and modern medicines, cure the abscess on Henry VII's knee, and get myself a nice country manor and title of nobility for my pains!

Or maybe I'd go back and make sure that Caesar DIDN'T die on the Ides of March, just to see how that would have changed history.

Or slipped a dagger between the ribs of John Wilkes Booth as he made his way to Ford's theater.

Maybe jogged Aaron Burr's elbow just as he  pulled the trigger at a certain infamous duel?

The possibilities are endless!

Wow, and here I am thinking of selfish s**t like, "Tell my younger self to invest in Google and/or Bitcoin...." 

That's me... I'd buy $10 worth of Bitcoin when it was a penny a coin and cash out when it reached $20,000.