why go for 9's when you can go for 8s? you can aim for 88.8888888!

There's an old rant I cannot find at the moment that argued that most systems that believe they are 5 9's are really more like 5 8's.

Hit that and you also master time travel.

I know you were going for a BTTF reference, but a Primer (2004) reference would be a better fit for a VC forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Why? The number 88 doesn’t even feature in Primer from what I can find.

I agree the original setup didn’t allow for much else in the way of references, I just wanted to shoehorn in a perhaps more apropos time travel movie reference.

If you like Primer you might like this Australian time travel movie also, but I don’t think it references 88 MPH either. It’s a kind of Eternal Sunshine vibe and also involves weird tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Man_(film)