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Were you born in the wrong Era?

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I should've been born in a 1800s middle east harem. Get laid round the click for 18 wives and endless side chicks.
 
Mayne said:
I sometimes wonder. I installed chimney liners for 3 years. I could of been 12 years old and cleaning chimneys back in the Victorian era.

I think the victorian era is where I should of been born...seems like an awesome time to be alive.
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cholera, rampant TB, and daily 6pm public stabbings were pretty awesome, yeah.

1930s for me, though.
 
This feels about right. I'd like to be out exploring the stars, but I'm more than a little skeptical about that being in our future.
 
I'm happy with the era I was born in. It's cool to think of what it would have been like in other eras or what it will be like in the far future but I don't think I'd have it any other way.

I'd like to think of what it would have been like to live in the inventor era, like Edison, Bell, Tesla etc days. In those days you could come up with an idea and it probably was not done yet. Now days if you come up with an idea chances are it's already been done or it's patented so you can't do it.
 
I do wish I lived in a time before they had everything down to a science. More sincerity and authenticity.

IronWing said:
1918. I'd be like, "In your faces suckers, I got my flu shot!"
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Then you'd endure the Great Depression and be a parsimonious skinflint the rest of your life.
 
Only a dolt would rather have been born in any past era, which would be worse by almost every objective measure.

Now to have a TARDIS and get to visit ancient Rome or Victorian London (bring a respirator) would be cool.
 
40k. Inquisitions, centuries of galaxy-spanning wars, unquestioning worship of a god-emperor, as well as constant threat of death (and worse) from aliens, trans-dimensional thought control, and one's own people. Oh, and absolutely wicked architecture.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I'd like to think of what it would have been like to live in the inventor era, like Edison, Bell, Tesla etc days. In those days you could come up with an idea and it probably was not done yet. Now days if you come up with an idea chances are it's already been done or it's patented so you can't do it.
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Yep! And it's mostly companies that patent the most.
 
I think 1980 was a good your to have been born.

Maybe It would have been better if I'd been born in the 40s or 50s, then, If I had learned computers and got a programming job I would have been in that era where IT professionals more or less had infinite job security and got paid as well as Doctors.

On the other hand, It would be nice to maybe be born later, kids now have so many cool toys that we didn't have back in the 80s ...

So, I'm gonna say, I'd like the future era which includes Half Life 3
 
Red Squirrel said:
I'm happy with the era I was born in. It's cool to think of what it would have been like in other eras or what it will be like in the far future but I don't think I'd have it any other way.

I'd like to think of what it would have been like to live in the inventor era, like Edison, Bell, Tesla etc days. In those days you could come up with an idea and it probably was not done yet. Now days if you come up with an idea chances are it's already been done or it's patented so you can't do it.
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Chances are I'd be as hidebound and uncreative in 1887 as I am in 2017. I'd just have a lot less only-obvious-in-retrospect information to draw upon.
 
If you picked a future date and that you can't be born as civilization for whatever reason has been wiped out. Will there be a warning like you can't pick that date? Or just poof into the ether.
 
For the internet era, i do wish i was born 20 years later. I remember the time that when i would go to the library for books, always the ones that i needed the most where not there.
And the techbooks i liked or datasheet books were way over my allowance that i got at the time.
Yes, i also brought newspapers around as well and had cleaning jobs on the side next to school.
Internet in combination with the books that i could get now would have made life a lot more easier for a tech nerd.

Also, the games look so much nicer.
Although the N64 era did have nice stories in the games.
 
William Gaatjes said:
For the internet era, i do wish i was born 20 years later. I remember the time that when i would go to the library for books, always the ones that i needed the most where not there.
And the techbooks i liked or datasheet books were way over my allowance that i got at the time.
Yes, i also brought newspapers around as well and had cleaning jobs on the side next to school.
Internet in combination with the books that i could get now would have made life a lot more easier for a tech nerd.

Also, the games look so much nicer.
Although the N64 era did have nice stories in the games.
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Oh yeah I remember that. And most of the time when you wrote a paper they wanted at least 3 or more sources. Even when the internet did come out, "the internet" was considered 1 source forcing you to try to find something in the library. On the other hand, it's almost kind of sad now days that paper books are almost obsolete. Because of copyright things on the internet can't be copied on different sites, so when a site goes down, that information is lost forever.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Oh yeah I remember that. And most of the time when you wrote a paper they wanted at least 3 or more sources. Even when the internet did come out, "the internet" was considered 1 source forcing you to try to find something in the library. On the other hand, it's almost kind of sad now days that paper books are almost obsolete. Because of copyright things on the internet can't be copied on different sites, so when a site goes down, that information is lost forever.
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