Killing Bill Gates. It would be a weird timeline, maybe Microsoft would still exist, but in a different shape.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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Bring a time machine with you and teach ancient Egyptians how to use it
I would go back in time and arrange Genghis Khan to have a better father.
Teaching Abraham Lincoln how to do egirl makeup and being a femboy.
I'd bring a universal encyclopedia to the mesopotamians.
Carl Sagan himself. This timeline is going to be ruined.
Bring the secrets of caravel making to the Phoenicians/Carthaginians some 50 years before the first Punic wars. Maybe also some scribbles of the coast of Africa and the best winds to reach America.
Jesus. Not white, on Drugs, probably a mushroom
I wonder how much difference one Stinger SAM would have made at Blair Mountain in 1921.
Isreal
It would be fascinating to go back and prevent monotheism from taking off. See what happens.
At the very least, find whichever guy had a stick up his ass about people sticking things up asses, and get that poor schmuck laid.
Ending the first living cell on earth. If we are alone in the universe, preventing life from forming would do the most to change the timeline.
By doing that you would leave behind so many new and much more complex cells (modern bacteria, yeas, maybe even spores) You would probably boost evolution by millions of years!