Northeast Wars X

Welcome, chrononauts, back to linear time and the third annual Pretend You’re a Time Traveler Day!

Invented by Dresden Codak, a forum user over at Koala Wallop, and promoted for a second year last December, Pretend You’re a Time Traveler Day invites people to spend a little time today acting out the part of a visitor from another era getting their first glimpse of late 2009. Dresden Codak gives lots of examples of what you might do, including giving random strangers a phone number they must call in thirty years’ time, being a Victorian inventor scandalized by contemporary fashions or dressing as a warrior from a dystopian future amazed to find other living human beings.

Those wondering just how they might have come to arrive in 2009 may find this instructional film of use.