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If you could go back in time and do, or bring, one thing to mess up the timeline what would it be? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by hai@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to say leave a modern computer or some other piece of technology at some point in time (maybe 50's) but I'm not sure if it could be reversed engineered

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if it had infinite power and was unbreakable, it would end up being fought over and coveted as holy relic, instead of being played with and studied

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Hardly. The miniaturization required to make modern chips is ages ahead of anything possible in the 50s or 60s. Hell, them even getting some x-ray microscope to see the stupidly small transistors we have today would be a challenge in itself!