You can travel back in time to 1999 with 3 pieces of hardware, what are they?

[MrPopinjay]

I dunno- how much usable information could they get from it? I don't think you could easily reverse engineer it. I believe the real magic is from the manufacturing methods rather than the gear itself.

Wouldn't something directly understandable be more profitable, like source code for tons of modern software? Or information on future natural disasters? Or scientific journals documenting modern discoveries?

[Karlos Santos]

I would patent the idea (if possible) of Timecode and i would become what N2IT has been over the last 10 years.

[photojojo]

Wouldn't something directly understandable be more profitable, like source code for tons of modern software? Or information on future natural disasters? Or scientific journals documenting modern discoveries?

None of that will get me the bitches like being a bad ass DJ/Producer from the future though.

[MrPopinjay]

DUDE YOU HAVE A TIME MACHINE AND YOU'RE FOCUSING ON DJING?
+ If you think being a badass DJ will get you more bitches than being rich you need to open your eyes dude :P

@Karlos That's actually a really nice idea. It's simple enough that you could explain the basics of it to a team of people and actually set about making it using technology readily available.

[soundinmotiondj]

Firmware survives the time travel technicalities so you are good to go. Any device you bring back will just be restored to its factory default state.

Then I'd order a white box PC with the latest & greatest hardware, and pay the factory to install the DJ software of my choice, and copy all my media onto that system. Hence "factory default state" will have everything I need.

Then I'd take 3 of those...gotta have backups.

[MaxOne]

I agree with others. I wish it was still two turntables and a mixer. All focus was on music finding and skills back then.

It annoys me now that I have to constantly feel like i haven't quite got the equipment I need even though it's perfectly adequate and good.

I preferred it when I just stressed about not having enough tunes.

I feel life is a constant wait for the next NAMM or BPM and then being disappointed when the perfect controller isn't released.

I use technology in djing, embraced it early and love and defend it but i'm not "happier" for it. It's a pandora's box that now opened can't be closed.

I miss record shopping and the rush of discovering a rare banger

[DJSigma]

I basically use the same equipment people were using in 1999 anyway, so I wouldn't take any DJ equipment back. There's no point taking hardware back if the software/media will be wiped from it apart from to say "look at this futuristic piece of shit that doesn't even work cos it's been wiped!". Maybe I'd take my mixer. In fact, yeah, I'd take my mixer and a sports almanac like Marty McFly in Back To The Future 2.

[3IJ]

I miss record shopping and the rush of discovering a rare banger

THIS

...so much fun to go and play new stuff and search for passed over gems. it would be pointless but cool if you could listen to tracks on beatport, etc w timecode

[spiz]

I'd bring one of these and made sure it became a well known gimmick.


Curious what would happen a few years later...

[Maxiboy]

OK just the 2x CDJ2000 and a DJM2000 mixer