Just after birth control was invented, but before the AIDS epidemic.

I want to see the Cambrian period.

I would say mid-90s. Life was easier then. No cell phones, just before the internet really started to become a corporate advertising machine.

Also, I like to travel. Being from the US, everyone around the world thought the worst thing about our president was he had an affair.

~12Kyrs ago of course, when it all started to go gonzo.

Could tell us so much about how things started, why, and what the long-term implications were.

12Kyrs ago is the dawn of the Neolithic and Agricultural Revolutions, to be clear. Before that we’d lived as hunter-gather tribe & clan types for around 300Kyrs at least.

I wanna see when India crashed into asia many millions of years ago (i forgot when and I’m too lazy to look it up). Might need to do multiple time travel jumps to see a timelaps of the event, but it sounds spectacular to see the Himalayas going up as the continental plates crash and merge.

Stephen King wrote a book about this. His answer was the 1960s. The book is 11/22/63, which is the date of the John F. Kennedy assassination, as in, his main character is ultimately going back not just to prevent it, but to see if Oswald acted alone. But the way he writes about the time period tells me King really just wanted to revisit the decade of his youth. Born in 1948, King would have been 10 in 1958, the year his character travels to, and he would have been about 15 when Kennedy was assassinated. (Highly recommend the book. One of my favourites of his. And it’s not horror. It’s Americana, nostalgia, with a side of fantasy (the time travel bit).)

So when I say, my gut reaction is the mid-to-late 80s, to early 90s, I guess he and I have a similar idea, but King had way loftier ambitions.

The K–Pg extinction event would be quite the show.

Tbh nothing further than yesterday