Would you rather have been born 100 years....

before your birthday or after?

For example, if you were born on January 1, 1990, and you could change it, would you rather have been born January 1, 1890 or January 1, 2090? Or you could just keep it the same and live life as it is now.

I was born on December 6, 1992 and I would easily pick to be born on December 6, 2092. 1892 would be boring. Plus, I would probably end up living through the Great Depression. Screw all that.

Since I don't know what the future looks like, I'll keep it as of now.

But if I really had to change, 2091.

I just wanna be alive to witness World War 3.Solid_Snake325

i'd rather be born 100 years in the future. i'm curious to know what the year 2090 holds

Neither. I am quite glad I was born when I was... because I will get to experience all the greatest of humanity's inventions, discoveries and innovations. Fusion power is on the horizon, and that will be the next biggest thing for humanity since the discovery of how to create fire.

[QUOTE="Solid_Snake325"]I just wanna be alive to witness World War 3.gamerguru100

Neither. I am quite glad I was born when I was... because I will get to experience all the greatest of humanity's inventions, discoveries and innovations. Fusion power is on the horizon, and that will be the next biggest thing for humanity since the discovery of how to create fire.

foxhound_fox

Do we have any knowledge of where we were really born?

Because if not, 2090 might not seem that special, because you have no knowledge that you should have actually been born in 1990. So for those who want to be born 100 years into the future to see what it holds, it won't be special like you are thinking.

However, if I did have knowledge of my previous existance, living in the past would be awesome. I can use that knowlege to make a TON of money.

Well I really would rather keep it the same that it is now....mostly because I wouldn't want to be born in the future where everything is weird and all that...nor would I want to be born in the past with all the issues from 100 years ago...

100 years before would have been pretty cool. I have always been a fan of 20th century American history. I would get to witness two world wars and a civil rights movement first hand.

If the future is all spacey and squeaky clean like in some movies I'd sign up for that, but the future is probably gonna be pretty s***ty, so I'll keep my current b-day.

I would keep it the same as it is now: 1989

100 years from now Earth may not be around for all we know.

As for the past, no thanks. Life would just be harder and more boring without video games or internet.

Same or, 100 years after

I would really like to have been born in 1896. I wonder what the world would be like back then. And would that make me my parent's grandpa?QWERTYCommander

I would keep it the same as it is now: 1989

100 years from now Earth may not be around for all we know.

As for the past, no thanks. Life would just be harder and more boring without video games or internet.

A_Mobile_Doll

I lived through the 1970's and 1980's and trust me it was much more fun without internet. I love videogames, but I would take my childhood years of being outside with my friends anyday over videogames (although we were fascinated with Pong when we got that in '76)

As an American kid on the weekends or in summer we'd be out early in the morning with our friends playing Army, football, baseball, kickball, all kinds of activities all day until sunset, with no fear of pedophiles. We'd just come in when my mom called out for dinner, then we'd sit in my grandpas living room at the card table and watch Star Trek (original series), Ultra-Man, and Speed Racer. Then we'd be back out again. Much much better time. That was the 70's.

In the 80's we'd be out partying, dancing, MTV actually played videos in the 80's :o, people actually communicated in real life.....there were no cel-phones, PC's (for public use), I think things were much better. Watch "Freaks and Geeks" if you want an accurate representation of the time period, the only mistake I ever saw on that show was when Lindsay (Linda Cardellini) says "like" (as its used now), that term didn't really come into play until the early 1990's around the time "Friends" was the big hit TV show.

Surprisingly, I'd say past, though I'm older than most of you so I would have been born during the American Civil War......I would have seen the development of automobiles, aeroplanes (as they were called then), motion pictures, WW1, and the roaring 20's, the great depression and WW2 would have likely been after my time thankfully. H. G. Wells was all the rage in the 1890's with "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "Island of Dr. Morneau". Bran Stoker published "Dracula" around that time. Good stuff! And there were cameras then as well of course.

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I would keep it the same as it is now: 1989

100 years from now Earth may not be around for all we know.

As for the past, no thanks. Life would just be harder and more boring without video games or internet.

AFBrat77

I lived through the 1970's and 1980's and trust me it was much more fun without internet. I love videogames, but I would take my childhood years of being outside with my friends anyday over videogames (although we were fascinated with Pong when we got that in '76)

As an American kid on the weekends or in summer we'd be out early in the morning with our friends playing Army, football, baseball, kickball, all kinds of activities all day until sunset, with no fear of pedophiles. We'd just come in when my mom called out for dinner, then we'd sit in my grandpas living room at the card table and watch Star Trek (original series), Ultra-Man, and Speed Racer. Then we'd be back out again. Much much better time. That was the 70's.

In the 80's we'd be out partying, dancing, MTV actually played videos in the 80's :o, people actually communicated in real life.....there were no cel-phones, PC's (for public use), I think things were much better.

Fair enough

I suppose I say life would be harder and more boring without video games or internet because that's the era I've grown up in. I've never experienced life without it. I imagine 20 years from now kids will be saying the same thing as me about their Iphone 27s or Playstation 8

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[QUOTE="A_Mobile_Doll"]

I would keep it the same as it is now: 1989

100 years from now Earth may not be around for all we know.

As for the past, no thanks. Life would just be harder and more boring without video games or internet.

A_Mobile_Doll

I lived through the 1970's and 1980's and trust me it was much more fun without internet. I love videogames, but I would take my childhood years of being outside with my friends anyday over videogames (although we were fascinated with Pong when we got that in '76)

As an American kid on the weekends or in summer we'd be out early in the morning with our friends playing Army, football, baseball, kickball, all kinds of activities all day until sunset, with no fear of pedophiles. We'd just come in when my mom called out for dinner, then we'd sit in my grandpas living room at the card table and watch Star Trek (original series), Ultra-Man, and Speed Racer. Then we'd be back out again. Much much better time. That was the 70's.

In the 80's we'd be out partying, dancing, MTV actually played videos in the 80's :o, people actually communicated in real life.....there were no cel-phones, PC's (for public use), I think things were much better.

Fair enough

I suppose I say life would be harder and more boring without video games or internet because that's the era I've grown up in. I've never experienced without it. I imagine 20 years from now kids will be saying the same thing as me about their Iphone 27s or Playsation 8

I would say that's absolutely correct.....you hit it perfectly.

Trust me, if you were born earlier I'm sure you would have loved never needing to ever think about those things. Heck the only time I saw computers was on futuristic Star Trek! Until 1974 when I was allowed (don't know why I was let in) into where my dad worked in a top secret area in Germany. First time I ever saw computers, lol, I thought they were the coolest thing ever!

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[QUOTE="AFBrat77"]

I lived through the 1970's and 1980's and trust me it was much more fun without internet. I love videogames, but I would take my childhood years of being outside with my friends anyday over videogames (although we were fascinated with Pong when we got that in '76)

As an American kid on the weekends or in summer we'd be out early in the morning with our friends playing Army, football, baseball, kickball, all kinds of activities all day until sunset, with no fear of pedophiles. We'd just come in when my mom called out for dinner, then we'd sit in my grandpas living room at the card table and watch Star Trek (original series), Ultra-Man, and Speed Racer. Then we'd be back out again. Much much better time. That was the 70's.

In the 80's we'd be out partying, dancing, MTV actually played videos in the 80's :o, people actually communicated in real life.....there were no cel-phones, PC's (for public use), I think things were much better.

AFBrat77

Fair enough

I suppose I say life would be harder and more boring without video games or internet because that's the era I've grown up in. I've never experienced life without it. I imagine 20 years from now kids will be saying the same thing as me about their Iphone 27s or Playstation 8

I would say that's absolutely correct.....you hit it perfectly.

Trust me, if you were born earlier I'm sure you would have loved never needing to ever think about those things. Heck the only time I saw computers was on futuristic Star Trek! Until 1974 when I was allowed (don't know why I was let in) into where my dad worked in a top secret area in Germany. First time I ever saw computers, lol, I thought they were the coolest thing ever!

That kinda sounds like the feeling I had when I first saw FMV in video games. That blew my mind when Final Fantasy VII was released.

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[QUOTE="A_Mobile_Doll"]

Fair enough

I suppose I say life would be harder and more boring without video games or internet because that's the era I've grown up in. I've never experienced life without it. I imagine 20 years from now kids will be saying the same thing as me about their Iphone 27s or Playstation 8

A_Mobile_Doll

I would say that's absolutely correct.....you hit it perfectly.

Trust me, if you were born earlier I'm sure you would have loved never needing to ever think about those things. Heck the only time I saw computers was on futuristic Star Trek! Until 1974 when I was allowed (don't know why I was let in) into where my dad worked in a top secret area in Germany. First time I ever saw computers, lol, I thought they were the coolest thing ever!

That kinda sounds like the feeling I had when I first saw FMV in video games. That blew my mind when Final Fantasy VII was released.

Good analogy, funny how PC's and laptops are taken for granted now, but if you got to see a computer back then it was a huge deal.

After,I'd be living in a nuclear wasteland.Ah,paradise!

I'd prefer the future but at least I was born during the rise of modern gaming which is the NES era so I'm ok with this.

If I could remember stuff from this lifetime I would easily go back in time and be born 100 years in the past. Before I "left", though, I would memorise every sport result, every share price movement and every interest rate I could to make myself a billionaire ...

If I could remember stuff from this lifetime I would easily go back in time and be born 100 years in the past. Before I "left", though, I would memorise every sport result, every share price movement and every interest rate I could to make myself a billionaire ...

daqua_99

I'd rather be poor today than rich in the past.

I'm already glad i'm not born in the 21st century, child hood obesity and the wussification of children makes me glad that i'm born the year i was, at most a few years later

The future, solely for medical advances that would save me the trouble of having to go through chronic chemo throughout my life. Plus there'd be some pretty damn cool games. I'm a bit envious of my 1 year old nephew, as he's going to see some cool **** later on, long after I'm gone.

If we are talking about a 100 year change than Id prefer the future, but more than that I wish I were born in medieval times.

I like the time period I was born in.

If I could change my birth year. I would change it to 1993. Only 2 years difference.

Keep it the same.

I'd easily go back a 100 years.

I'd be very interested to go this far into the future.

I don't think anyone would want to live in an era before antibiotics and modern medicine.