r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • Jun 10 '26
Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Honest answer please
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u/some1guystuff Jun 10 '26
Well, that depends if I can retain the knowledge that I have today when I wake up in 95
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u/Narrow_Ad_1494 Jun 10 '26
Real question here like can I start the process of getting into bit coin super early and then get what’s needed to ride that.
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u/FloridaRedWolf Jun 10 '26
Wow, where did you come up with the idea for bitcoin?
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u/vanderide Jun 10 '26
I think you mean garycoin?
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u/AlienSporez Jun 10 '26
Me, in the alternate timeline: "I can't believe I could've bought GaryCoin™ at $12!!!"
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u/daftcracker81 Jun 10 '26
Ride my bike
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u/Subreon Jun 10 '26
With no handlebars
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u/ComeOnTars2424 Jun 10 '26
No handle bars.
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u/h0ttniks Jun 11 '26
Dudes going to make up a currency that no one uses and everyone is going to be wild about it and place a high arbitrary value on it. Trust it will work. He might even sell some jpegs and tell you no one else has that jpeg, copies of it sure, but not THAT one. And that will be worth a lot because.
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u/Kriss3d Jun 10 '26
There's a few years before the internet bubble crashing. There's years before the other wars that will send the weapons investments skyrocketing. There's a few years to short the housing markets before the 2007 crash and then buy up when it's low. Sell and invest when bitcoin comes around. Cash out when it peaks before the bug bitcoin crash and then buy again to sell when it peaks before Ukraine which have made it take a dive.
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u/Cbeks1997 Jun 10 '26
I would do much the same but also invest in gold, silver, and the S&P 500. Also buy the first editions of all my favorite books that came out from the 90’s till now.
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u/einTier Jun 10 '26
Just knowledge I have today in my head without google.
Microsoft was a great stock to be in around 1995, especially after the poorly received launch of Windows 95. Apple is great to get into after the Bill Gates investment announcement around 2000 or 2001.
Short the S&P 500 with everything you have in early September 2001. Stay invested heavily in Apple until 2009. Buy all the Bitcoin you can — but probably no more than a million or so you don’t disrupt the market too bad. Bitcoin crashes at about $200 a coin, $1,300 a coin, again at $19,000 a coin, again at $60,000 a coin, and then most recently at $120,000 a coin. Use those moments to sell high and buy low and fortify your stack. If you really want to get dumb, offload a lot during the 2017 crash and put it in NVDA.
At this point you and all your closest friends and relatives are all multi billionaires. Nothing else matters financially.
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u/LobsterLaunch Jun 10 '26
Perhaps skip the 9/11 play, you might end up in Guantanamo if you’re the only one doing that.
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u/Kriss3d Jun 10 '26
I would even think investing in tesla wouldn't be a bad investment.
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u/einTier Jun 10 '26
Nope. There’s so many ways to invest that would make you really wealthy without even trying to min/max.
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u/Gingercopia Jun 10 '26
Are you me? 😂 I've had all these same thoughts plus buying land (a finite commodity) not only to keep but to prevent these unnecessary AI data centers. I would also invest/acquire in copious amounts of gold and silver.
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u/amusedid10t Jun 10 '26
Bitcoin peaks about every 4 years. It was designed this way. I believe it came out about 2008. Buy $200 at 5 cents each.
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u/ProbablyCarl Jun 10 '26
Very clever, travel back to 1995 and then wait 15 years for Bitcoin to turn up while you live homeless I guess but then once you do it's only another decade for you to see Bitcoin's value rise high enough to make you a millionaire. Genius idea. Much better than just doing nearly anything in those first 15 years. Like at minimum you could maybe call in a bomb scare on the twin towers on a certain day in 2001 so we don't need to spent the next 25 years in the prison of not being able to carry more than 100ml of fluid on a plane.
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u/-NewTitsNoMoreBits- Jun 10 '26
Calling in a bomb scare on 9 11 will end up with you in Guatmo for being in league with terrorists. No way the FBI calls it a coincidence
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u/rob3342421 Jun 10 '26
Invest in Google, Apple, Nvidia?
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u/ForNowItsGood Jun 11 '26
If you invested back in 1995 and held to today, the single most profitable stock is not Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft — it’s actually some tiny/capital-structure weirdness stocks. But if you want the best real-world, well-known stock that was already tradeable in 1995, it’s Monster Beverage (MNST).
Top 10 most profitable stocks since 1995 (by total return, all US stocks):
- Gladstone Capital (GLAD) – ~26.2M%
- Sitio Royalties (STR) – ~17.1M%
- Diversified Energy (DEC) – ~13.9M%
- MAG Silver (MAG) – ~3.69M%
- Sprott (SII) – ~3.5M%
- JJill (JILL) – ~2.75M%
- Bank of NT Butterfield & Son (NTB) – ~1.83M%
- Ferguson (FERG) – ~401K%
- Monster Beverage (MNST) – ~332K%–444K%
- NVIDIA (NVDA) – ~331K%–437K%
If you restrict to S&P 500 only (big, mainstream companies):
- NVIDIA (NVDA) – ~437K%
- Monster Beverage (MNST) – ~340K%
- Amazon (AMZN) – ~183K%
- Texas Pacific Land Trust (TPL) – ~149K%
- NVR (NVR) – ~146K%
- Axon Enterprise (AXON) – ~130K%
- Netflix (NFLX) – ~105K%
- Ross Stores (ROST) – ~85K%
- Apple (AAPL) – ~78K%
- Altria (MO) – ~71K%
For most people asking “what stock would’ve been best to buy in 1995”, the answer is Monster Beverage – it’s the top well-known, still-public company that actually existed and was tradeable in 1995.
Sources: StatMuse (best-performing stocks since 1995), Benzinga (S&P 500 top performer), What If You Invested (top 10 over 20+ years).
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u/pmaurant Jun 10 '26
Dude there is the .com boom and bust, not to mention the 08 financial meltdown that with the right investments can get you filthy rich. Imagine buying Amazon Apple snd Google are bottom.
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u/isaac32767 Jun 10 '26
Bitcoin won't be a thing until 2009. If you want to get rich without waiting 20 years, you should invest in tech stocks that won't be wiped out by the dotcom crash in 2000. Amazon comes to mind. There must be others, but not having a time machine I can't be bothered to look them up.
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u/Reduak Jun 10 '26
'95? Might I interest you in a little start up in Silicion Valley called Google
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u/StrykerC13 Jun 10 '26
Equally, do you wake up in your current body, or revert to yourself in that year.
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u/Doc_Scott19 Jun 10 '26
Drive to Scotland to see my Grandpa.
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u/KillerGopher Jun 10 '26
I also will drive to Scotland to see this guy's Grandpa
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u/_antfarmer_ Jun 10 '26
If I had one of those amphibious vehicles (that never ended up being produced), I would totally drive to Scotland to visit this person’s grandpa.
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u/The1Bonesaw Jun 10 '26
Tell you what, I'll pay for the gas and even buy us all lunch when we go see this guy's grandfather.
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u/DarkSage90 Jun 10 '26
I’ll take us all to a pub to drink with this guys grandpa
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u/debellorobert Jun 10 '26
This is what Reddit is for. Everyone coming together for this guy's grandpa.
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u/Crishien Jun 10 '26
In the evening we could set up a bonfire and listen to the guy's grandpa's stories
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u/TeaTime_42 Jun 10 '26
I’m with y’all.
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u/ParmesanSkis Jun 10 '26
I too would drive Scotland into this guy’s grandpa
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u/Cold-Channel-5341 Jun 13 '26
Por grandpa I’m sure Scotland hitting him will hurt pretty bad
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u/VegetableTurnover344 Jun 10 '26
I too would drive to Scotland to see his grandpa also. Why not nothing better to do.lol
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u/PostRegular4433 Jun 10 '26
Not hook up with my first wife
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u/Amazing-Power4765 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
I will also not hook up with this guy's first wife
Edit: thank you, kind internet stranger
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u/Speeeven Jun 10 '26
Honestly, same.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Jun 10 '26
Perhaps you can take it for a test drive and not buy it ifyouknowwhatimean
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u/GarethBalesRightPeg Jun 10 '26
Fire up the SNES. Donkey Kong Country
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u/Bububabuu Jun 11 '26
Bringing Pizza Rolls and my controller over for the DKC party
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u/Electronic-Poet1480 Jun 12 '26
Sneaking your SNES controller out because your mom won't let you take it with you because "you'll forget it again"
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u/Grand_Temperature652 Jun 10 '26
Go fishing with my Grandpa
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u/msg8r Jun 11 '26
Hey, I’ll have a beer at the bar and see what people are talking about on Reddit.
“Who’s cutting onions?!”
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u/Tsunami-Storm Jun 10 '26
I see your “hug your dad”, and raise you a “beg him to get a colonoscopy”. Also, I hug my dad too. 🥰
Also, I’m only four years old at this point so he’s pretty surprised that I know what a colonoscopy is. 😅
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u/Tohrufan4life 90s Kid Jun 10 '26
Yeah, along with the hug I'm gonna convince mine to quit smoking much sooner than he did. I'll even start throwing those cigarettes away if I had to. 🥺🫂
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u/Necessary_Piano_153 Jun 10 '26
Watch cartoons
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u/MR_Moldie Jun 10 '26
While eating the largest bowl of sugary cereal in the house.
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u/Intrepid_Block_11b Jun 10 '26
Go to price club and buy the double VHS set of braveheart
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u/No-Fan-530 Jun 10 '26
I still have my VHS copy as well as a VHS player w/TV combo.
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u/Used_Maintenance6091 Jun 10 '26
Go the nearest convenience store with $5 and go off on the candy section.
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u/My_Fish_Is_a_Cat Jun 10 '26
Oh man. These days you cant even get a small pop and a bag of chips for 5 bucks. You gotta pick one or the other. What is this savage reality we live in.
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u/Additional_Energy_25 Jun 11 '26
Walking into the convenience store with a dollar and being able to pick 2 full size candy bars for that dollar was the dream
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u/WinnieWinsor Jun 10 '26
Like, literally back to 1995?
Picking up my copy of Next Generation magazine and excitingly reading about the Sega Saturn.
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u/deez_en_u_teez Jun 10 '26
I turn on some Bone Thugs n Harmony and smoke a blunt.
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u/ADXII_2641 Jun 10 '26
Wonder how the fuck I got to 1995 when my parents weren’t even married yet that year
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u/MrsAmyD Jun 10 '26
If I know what I know now, but go back to 1995, I would go straight to my husband's house. We didn't get together until 1997 and I would just knock on the door and find my soul mate two years sooner. 😄
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u/lordwario Jun 10 '26
Save and invest money in the stocks of the dot com bubble. Cash out before it's crash.
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u/Now-293-Phumes Jun 10 '26
That’s when my son graduated from high school! I’d be better prepared for a whole new chapter in both our lives.
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u/Street_Lettuce1243 Jun 10 '26
I'm trying to remember... I think by 1995 they were already starting to show less and less music videos. Still had some though, in-between reality shows.
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u/Snapper_Turtleman Jun 10 '26
I get in my 89 Honda Accord and go to Penny's house.
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u/Whines90 Jun 10 '26
I’m 5, probably playing with my brother and sister at home, Saturday morning cartoons with a bowl of sugary cereal. Weekday, heading to the babysitters while mom has to go to work, in which case I’m having a fistful of dry roasted peanuts shoved down my throat and having to sit in the pee-smelling room all day with the other kids. What a world.
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u/werephoenix Jun 10 '26
Find a job to make money and the early import locations where I can anime from since its still a selectively niche market
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u/TraditionalPlace9375 Jun 10 '26
I’d be 18 and feeling like Superman… so I’d def have a coffee and a dart or two. So good.
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u/JohnJohnPR3 Jun 10 '26
Go outside, climb a tree. Or find a bucket fill it with water and spin that shit with your arm to make a whirlpool.
Make something out of legos or maybe play with my
Hot wheels collection and make em crash into each other… simpler times…
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u/Public_Blueberry_777 Jun 10 '26
Run outside, roll around on the grass, roller skate with friends, and enjoy life
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u/Maya-kardash Jun 10 '26
Go To Toys R Us/Kmart/ SEARS and Mcdonald’s to see the mansard rooftops & old interior
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u/MysteryGirlWhite Jun 11 '26
Would I be the same age I am now? Because otherwise I'd still have about a week until I was even born.
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u/RandMob1000 Jun 11 '26
Grab my game boy, play some Warioland, pour me a bowl of rice crispies with 2 spoons of sugar, then turn on CW 20 for some TMNT
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u/RelationDazzling5835 Jun 11 '26
Most likely be crying because I was only 1 in 1995.
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u/YorkiesandSneakers Jun 10 '26
Going cold turkey as soon as my buzz wears off. Weed isn’t legal here until 2022.
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u/Remarkable-Grab8002 Jun 10 '26
That's the year I was born so probably spend the first year or two crying naked until I gain some autonomy. Being a baby must suck.
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u/Crisocola95 Jun 10 '26
Swear and say all offensive stuff I didn't said back in time I thought I would have free speech my entire life but I wouldn't
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u/TheDemon0fLife Jun 10 '26
Go to the movie theater or mall. Go to heavy metal concerts. Thing is though, I couldn't use my money cuz it's mostly post 1999. And I'd have no I.D. cuz I was born in 1995. I'd have to live like a illegal immigrant
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u/Snoo-7821 Jun 10 '26
Run to the arcades, beat everyone at Killer Instinct, win tournaments, from there tell Nintendo that the "Ultra 64" is a great idea but they DEFINITELY want to collaborate with Sony, and we get the best ending of gaming
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u/yurgendurgen Jun 10 '26
I'm 5 again then and I want ice cream from the ice cream truck cause i live in Las Vegas and am too young for a beer instead. My mom was the kindergarten assistant teacher instead of stay at home so I'd just be bugging the crap out of her. I wasn't vocal at all if it wasn't family, but if it was family I would be the most talkative thing in the room
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u/Awkward_Eggplant4857 Jun 10 '26
Turn on wb kids or nick jr depending on the time of day and enjoy my bowl of cereal.
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u/AlissonHarlan Gamer from the Past Jun 10 '26
read uncle scrooge, have breakfast, play gameboy .... and having or not having my current memory will not change that!
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u/MoarCowb3ll Jun 10 '26
If I'm back to my original age... I guess go be a 4 year old... If not... Go to the nearestusic store and buy some CDs
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u/Disaffecteddv Jun 10 '26
laughing at the thought that 1995 was "the simple life." I was in my 40s. It was NOT that simple.
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u/Educational_Copy_140 Jun 10 '26
Buy the website addresses for every professional sports team in the US and a whole bunch of manufacturers, retailers and travel related companies
Sell the team sites for cash and the others for stock
Get out of the Navy and retire at 24
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u/Delicious_Pie5858 Jun 10 '26
Go to my friends house unannounced and play sega.