Thread: if you could change 1 thing in history, what would you change?

This i find a hard question, because there are so many things i would do. Just remember, what you do (ex. Kill some evil person in history) will affect the future as if what you did happened.

And remember, this is changing something from history, so you cant do something like invent something before is actually got invented, you can only change something that already happened.

anyways... go

Okay. I will change the date the transistor was invented to 8,000 years ago. Should be fun.

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Okay. I will change the date the transistor was invented to 8,000 years ago. Should be fun.

The transistor would be completely useless 8000 years ago. They didn't have the math to use it for anything interesting, nor the power needed to have it do anything, nor the processing techniques required to make it communicate with the world (display, input, etc). In other words, it wouldn't change much :p

Originally Posted by khh

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.

why? (im not asking what it is, im wondering what you could possibly think of that you couldnt post and why it would be to grim )

Actually, the meme could be argued to be of XML, as it's the only language that allows you to define your own, arbitrary tags. The fun part is that you used BBcode style for the tags, and since BBcode is also derived from HTML, it could be argued that you're both right. Or both wrong. I'm going with the latter. And I'd like to add that we're thoroughly off topic.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

why? (im not asking what it is, im wondering what you could possibly think of that you couldnt post and why it would be to grim )

Can't answer those questions without revealing it. It's just that there are so few things in history I'd dare change, as the consequences would be monumental and impossible to calculate beforehand.

Originally Posted by khh

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.


The transistor would be completely useless 8000 years ago. They didn't have the math to use it for anything interesting, nor the power needed to have it do anything, nor the processing techniques required to make it communicate with the world (display, input, etc). In other words, it wouldn't change much :p

Then how could it have been invented?

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Prevent the Roman Empire from collapsing, I guess.

what the hell does /word mean :O

Save Ghandi from being killed.

In HTML code the slash is used to create a closing tag.

Um, it means END.

It's BBCode, actooally.

Yep. And HTML.

No, it's BBCode. Square brackets.

And it's for closing threads. On a bulletin board. Jeebus.

I would kill that bitch Gavrilo Princip.

i might prevent religion from starting.

no offense

Originally Posted by Solarflare

i might prevent religion from starting.

no offense

But why? Then we'd have nothing to laugh at.

I would kill Abraham.

No single change comes without any consequence... Any change that I would ever attempt to make from the past would probably make the future worse. Besides, history has a tendency to repeat itself, so why make changes in the past if similar events would happen later on? I would not make any changes to the past for that reason.

Hitler... I'd make his moustache bright pink and give him a deep, super smooth stereotypical black guy voice. 1970's style.

High school ; D

The birth of "famous" artists with great "talents"

I would make my parents give birth to me in 1991 .... And I would advise Amy Winehouse to break up with her ex Blake who was the one who convinced her to start drugs :T

Prevent the birth of Solarflare.

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