Ah, those early days of CD-ROMs… I remember when they first came out, a blank CD-R disc was around $100. I remember trying to think of a use case for what could merit that level of expense. A couple months ago, while cleaning up around my desk, I ended up listing a spindle of about 500 blank CD-Rs on the free to a good home category on craigslist. It took a couple tries to get someone who actually came to pick it up. If only I had a time machine, I could have sent it to my 20-something self in the early 90s and sold them for $50,000 and then put that money into Apple stock.
Someone reads out atip, discovers disks manufactured by a company that doesnt exist yet and Xfiles raids your house.
There are so many ways to mess up. If we got time travel in the next ~40 years Google could probably catch casual time bandits by tracking early meme and emoticon usage.
Where's my damn time machine?