--- title: Back to the Future Day: Chat With a Doc Brown Facebook Bot description: A Facebook page for the movie character will interact with you canonical: https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-19T18:27:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:08.955Z og:title: Celebrate 'Back to the Future' Day With a Doc Brown Bot og:description: A Facebook page for the movie character will interact with you og:url: https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrate 'Back to the Future' Day With a Doc Brown Bot twitter:description: A Facebook page for the movie character will interact with you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Celebrate _Back to the Future_ Day With This Doc Brown Facebook Bot  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 19, 2015 6:27 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 19, 2015 6:27 PM UTC This Wednesday is Oct. 21, 2015, the date Doc Brown and Marty McFly visit Hill Valley, California via time-travel in 1989’s _Back to the Future Part II_—and a date that, like [_Mean Girls’_ Oct. 3](http://time.com/4054977/mean-girls-day-october-3rd/), has become something of an Internet holiday. To celebrate, [a Facebook profile](https://www.facebook.com/DocBrownHillValley) for a certain Doctor Emmett Brown has popped up on the social media site, but this is no tribute account from some ’80s sci-fi enthusiast—it’s a bot that will actually interact with fans. Doc’s Facebook timeline is full of updates about his progress on a “brainwave thought-to-text translator,” and now his invention seems to be working. “I’m back in 2015 and need help,” reads his latest post. “MESSAGE ME NOW!” Go ahead, try it—he’ll answer back in seconds. (Be prepared to break the bad news about hoverboards, though.) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/"},"headline":"Celebrate Back to the Future Day With This Doc Brown Facebook Bot","datePublished":"2015-10-19T18:27:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:08.955Z","description":"A Facebook page for the movie character will interact with you","url":"https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Back to the Future","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/","name":"Celebrate Back to the Future Day With This Doc Brown Facebook Bot"}}]}] ```