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I put all my skill points in computers so I could go back to the 70's maybe. The computers made before the ibm pc still seem close enough to be usable by me.

I could also go to neolithic era as rock-on-stick-skull-crusher

wait, i have skills??

I could probably only go as far back as the industrial revolution.

I work in materials testing, mostly for automotive and aerospace, but I could probably put that to work helping design early steam engines and rail systems.

I also play trombone. That design was more or less finalized around that same time.

I can dig a hole in the earth so I'd say my skills apply all the way back to Ur and Sumeria.

I haven't practised it in a long time but my formation was in a horticulture school, I could go pretty far back.

I'll go way back and wow people with mayonnaise.

I'm a chef, so probably back to when fire started to be a thing people used.

I don't have any skills so I don't think I could get really far back.

Grew up hunting, growing, and preserving a good percent of my food. I might need to brush up on specifics but i think i could do okay if i had social supports for my disability (food providers usually do/did)

I feel like the further back I go, the better I would do. Send me to 65,000,000 B.C. I'll out caveman all the neaderthals.

Windows 98 SE

The day before yesterday with great confidence.

Some of the original plastic reactors still run where I work so 1950's is the oldest operational unit and wasn't modernised. No computer. The corpses of the older stuff remain abandoned and in place. Not much different, just much less production rate and smaller.

1940's I suppose.

I'd be fine in any time period where I could still understand English spoken however. I don't care what I do for a living. Can't remember how far back that would be, Rob Words surely has a video about this.

With my work skills I won’t be particularly useful before the first high level programming languages started coming in the 60s. But I also gained some handiwork knowledge over time so I won’t be a lost cause if someone sends me further back.

maybe somewhere in the greek era where I could be a cynic messing around

How long has Excel been around?

Weaving, pottery, gardening, spinning. Yea it'd take a while to adjust to the culture and way of life but I could probably go all the way to Sumer if I wanted and language & diseases weren't a problem.

Italian Renaissance maybe? I can paint pretty good

Given a fresh restart, carpenter or blacksmith 1300s probably. Id loathe the lack of food though