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The Legend of John Titor- The 'Time Traveler' From 2036 and One of the Greatest Internet Mysteries of All Time…
Now, most time travelers are trying to find out where the line went bad by going into the past, creating a new universe, and proceeding forward to see if the same thing results in 2564. It appears the line went bad around the year 2000. I’m here now, in this time, to test a few theories of mine before going forward.
Now, for the future you might want to know about.
One, Y2K is a disaster. Many people die on the highways when they freeze to death trying to get to warmer weather.
Two, the government tries to keep power by instituting marshall law, but all of it collapses when their efforts to bring the power back up fail.
Three, a power facility in Denver is able to restart itself, but is mobbed by hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed. This convinces most that maybe we shouldn’t bring the old system back up.
Four, a few years later,communal government system is developed, after the constitution takes a few twists.
China retakes Taiwan, Israel wins the largest battle for their life, and Russia is covered in nuclear snow from their collapsed reactors.
Art, the reason I’m here now is because I believe anuclear weapon set off by Iraq in the Middle East war with Israel might have something to do with the damaged timeline. I will test that theory and get back to you.
Please pray that we discover the reason why there is no apparent future after 2564.”
Titor then disappeared and was mostly forgotten about until the year 2000 when someone with the username TimeTravel_0 began posting the same story to the Time Travel Institute Forum. This person also began posting to the Art Bell BBS forums under the username John Titor. Here is the fist post from John Titor:
Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975.
“My ‘time’ machine is a stationary mass temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two top-spin dual-positive singularities that produce a standard off-set Tipler sinusoid.
“I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.”
John obviously received a lot of attention from his posts and he openly invited any and all questions about his life, his mission, and time travel.
He wrote in detail about how time travel worked and provided technical specs regarding his time machine, the C204 Gravity Distortion Unit. He even posted a few grainy photos of his actual machine along with scans from the machine's manual…
He claimed his mission was to head back to 1975 in order to obtain an IBM 5100 computer and bring it back to 2036. Why would such an old computer be so important in the future?
The answer is that the 5100 series has a unique function that IBM kept secret for years. It is capable of reading old code written before the widespread use of APL and Basic and there are none of these computers left in the future. Government scientists in 2036 need it to debug equipment susceptible to the UNIX Millennium Bug, a problem similar to the Y2K bug that will cause many systems relying on computers to fail.
This "secret" feature was actually confirmed by an IBM engineer who helped design it, which only furthers the John Titor legend because only a very small number of people ever knew about it.
The answer is that the 5100 series has a unique function that IBM kept secret for years. It is capable of reading old code written before the widespread use of APL and Basic and there are none of these computers left in the future. Government scientists in 2036 need it to debug equipment susceptible to the UNIX Millennium Bug, a problem similar to the Y2K bug that will cause many systems relying on computers to fail.
This "secret" feature was actually confirmed by an IBM engineer who helped design it, which only furthers the John Titor legend because only a very small number of people ever knew about it….
I will be leaving this worldline shortly and this will be my final post. There are only a handful of people who will know exactly when I will be leaving and I'm sure they will let you know when I'm gone.
[…] My parting thought revolves around something J.C. has been harping on since day one. No, I do not have a secret agenda but I have been paying a great deal of attention to your worldline. My interaction with you was not a direct mission parameter but it was a secondary mission protocol based on standing orders given to all temporal drivers. That secondary objective is basically to gather as much information about a worldline based on a set of observable variables when we first arrive. Your worldline met those conditions. What amazes me is why no one here wonders why Y2k didn't hit them at all?
Bring a gas can with you when the car dies on the side of the road.
Farewell."