Travel back in time to October 2000, a time when the world’s population of 6.5 billion lived with little fear of global terrorism.
Enter a forum poster, TimeTravel_0, alleging he was US army traveller from 2036, a world in which terrorism and civil war has left 3 billion dead.
JOHN TITOR
TimeTravel_0, who later referred to himself as John Titor, began posting on internet forums and engaging in chat conversations about time travel, making short posts that typically centred around what would be required to make a time travelling machine.
Later he changed his name to John Titor in order to post on the Art Bell BBS forums which required registration.
He confirmed that ‘John Titor’ was a real name but never whether it was his own or not.
After a while Titor began to reveal more of himself, eventually leading to the revelation that he was a time traveller who had originally been sent back to 1975 to acquire an IBM5100 computer to enable the military to debug legacy systems still used in 2036.
Titor then revealed that he was visiting 2000 for personal reasons, visiting members of his family and collecting pictures that were lost in a civil war in the year 2015.
Titor then claimed in 2001 that he was returning to his own time. The forum posts stopped and never resumed.
TITOR’S PREDICTIONS
During his time posting, John Titor made various predictions or, should I say, revelations as to what had already happened from the perspective of his own timeline -
- Instances of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD or ‘mad cow‘ disease) would increase.
- Almost half the world’s population would perish in World War Three in 2015
- The 2004 Olympics would be the last
- Civil war would start in America around the time of the 2004 presidential election, due to erosion of freedoms
In the case of CJD, Titor’s prediction is partially correct as CJD certainly does appear to be a growing problem in this day and age.
The Olympics claim was obviously wrong though as the 2006 Winter Olympics were successfully held.
As for the other two, well freedoms have been eroded, but no civil war has occurred in America… yet, and WWIII may or may not begin in 2015.
Skeptics make a point of highlighting a prediction that Titor didn’t make – there was never any mention of September the 11th in any of his posts.
TITOR’S TIME MACHINE
Titor, over the period he was posting, gave information about his time machine, including parts of the operating manual and photographs.
The main components of his time machine, he said, were -
- Three supercomputers
- Gravity sensors
- An X-ray based cooling and venting system
- Four caesium clocks
- Two magnetic housing units for the dual micro singularities
- An electron injection manifold, used to alter the gravity and mass micro singularities
In his forum posts Titor stated that the device was originally installed in a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette and then later re-fitted into a 1987 4-wheel drive truck.
Though Titor said that UFOs were still largely unexplained in 2036, it was his belief that aliens were actually humans from further into the future, using far more advanced and accurate versions of his time travelling machine in order to return to the past for other future time missions of their own.
CONCLUSION
Whatever views you may have on the authenticity of John Titor and the possibility of time travel either now, or in the future, it certainly makes entertaining reading.
Many of Titor’s predictions seem to have failed to have come true but, as with any good hoaxer (if that is what he is), there is a fallback to help perpetuate the story – Titor claimed that the future exists in many different formats and multiple universes, thereby making it possible that ‘reality’ can be altered in one such ‘world’ whilst continuing as expected in another – talk about a great get out jail free card!
Supporters of Titor also claim that his failed prediction about the Olympics was because he was referring to the summer games and not the winter ones.
Additionally, they suggest that civil war in America since 2004 is not evident as it is in fact slowly growing in momentum and that historians will later point to that year as being the beginnings of bigger things yet to come.
Personally, I think that someone with an advanced knowledge of retro-computing and physics has had a good laugh at those he managed to fool with some very clever forum posts.
What do you think – was John Titor a time traveller from a post-nuclear 2036 or a master hoaxer?
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I believe john titor to be a real time traveler. its because of two things, one the manual that was pictured looks really good military type manual. You have to have served in one of them to get the jest of the type of thinking and it reflects in the pictures. 2nd thing is the prediction of the CERN mini black holes, and the creation of a black hole that remains after energy is lost. it stabilizes after losing excess energy during the creation of the event horizon. 3rd thing is the revelation of a ‘dual black hole’ that means that the black hole has two event horizons a positive and negative polarity that magnetism would indeed capture and stabilize it. 4th any hoaxers would enjoy exposing the fact that everybody has been had. and that really hasn’t happened.
well, I’m a time traveler myself,
but I came from the PAST!
early 70’s to be precise.
I’m exploring the “future”
I did enjoy early 90’s by the way
now I’m moving to 2010 soon.
Erm, yeah, right, ok, I believe ya!
are you seriouse?! Mr. Peter if your sooo confident tell us what will happen in 2012 any changes?
But Since the predict has fail?
Olympic on 2008 Had Successfully Done.
You Guys Still Believe That?
John Titor-Time Traveller_0?
I was under the umpression that Jonny Titor was a white dude from 2036. But I did read the original threads from 2001 and must say that the color of his skin didn’t come up.
Regardless of skin color, it appears to be an elaborate scam created to market products.
As to the morons who believe that time travel back in time is not possible,they must be the same relatives of the people who believed the earth was the center of the universe and also flat.
Not that colour makes any difference but that commentator was, I believe, just on a wind up and isn’t the ‘real’ John Titor.
As for time travel, it’s theoretically possible but do you believe that technology and understanding will ever be sufficient for it to become reality?
LOl I wounder if his time machine was also fitted to a DeLorean. and also keft fire trails when it Time Travels
Unfortunately not, due to the credit crunch. Instead, Titor decided to fit it into a Robin Reliant
So, how is life going in 2008? I am Titor, John Titor a Time Traveller who has travelled 30 years behind to see you people. I already made a time travel to 2000. Those guys were not equipped enough to ask me questions. But now you people have matured with technology. I appreciate you all. Reasons you and your people have not believed my 2000 visit was Olympics did not stop, civil war did not begin. Huh, is that all? Those thing s are gonna happen, actually one of my 2036 colleague time travelled and made things right to postpone the civil war and the olympics stoppage. Anyhow buddies, I am not God or a trained physicist. I am just John Titor, one forward of your wordline. Any comments appreciated.
Ok, I’m willing to play along
If you really are a time traveller then please tell me which numbers I need to pick in order to win the lottery next week?
I have promised my mother during a tearful farewell from my 2036 that I will not answer this type of questions. She is my love you see, I travelled all the time to fetch my family photos to 2000. I love her very much. So, I cant say the numbers of lottery. Anyhow, I can give you a clue. Make sure that I not a God or physicist or even a Gambler. Try from 0 to 99 and you win. I have it in our history that you are gonna make history. You will win. May be you want that Almanac? I will sure get it during my next visit by 2009. Any interesting questions please?
When will World War 3 occur and who will start it?
loooooL Scam good one oh yeah Titor if ur sooo true tell us wat will happen in 2012 u mustv heard about mayen calender and all that hoax
Hello there,
John Titor here.
I am back. I am now on a mission to take Apple iMAC from 2008. We have a problem in Imacs functioning by the year 2036.
I will be here for another 4 months, 27 days, 3 hours, 45 seconds. Should you contact me, you can through one of my representative Jagadish at jagadishsr@gmail.com.
Oh please.. that’s an interesting twist to all this. Scam, are you checking things out here? Seems like a hoax to me.
Hey Pinky,
Hoax? we actually deleted the word ‘Hoax’ in 2038. It has been replaced with “Joxe’ by the Constitution of New words association of America. You can check this out in your 2038. I can answer almost all of your questions. Sep 11 incident was known to me. But revealing it would have stopped my return back to 2038 by 2000. So, I kept my mouth shut. Anyhow there are lot of interesting incidents to happen over time. Why know that before it happens? See it and experience it on your own will.
I’m watching with interest….
Huh?! John Titor? I thought u went back to the future. I hope ur not influenced by back to the future movie hehehe. Anyways, John Titor if your soo really wanna tell me what I’ll be doing on December 2009 if it comes true i’ll definitly believe ya
I hope “John” comes back and answers a few of your questions
LOL Me2 very much
I believe that he is subscribed to these comments so we’ll see….
John do the humanity and ur fellow human beings a favour go back to 2012, December 21 see the changes that happen and come back will really appreaciate that. I’m vey interested for real if u give like a huge prediction and comes true i’ll believe cause as far as I know u never came back u left in 2001 and nothing has come true from what u said before.
Actually the 2008 olympics occured without accident.
And Civil war has happened in america…..but that was like 140 years ago
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Have you noticed any other errors, graphical or otherwise?
No errors!
Phew!!
Everything was well messed up for a while yesterday!!
I can see “no image” icon beside the video.The video plays.No prob with that.
I don’t see that myself. Are you using IE or Firefox, or something else?
Can you del the no image tag beside the videos?
I’m not sure what you mean??
Great! It will be only related to scams?
Do you have some ideas of what else you would like to see?
aw Scam I think you know me quite well by now…I love watching funny stuff.
I’ll see what I can find that is both humourous and somehow related to the theme of this site.
I am yet to look into the videos section…my net is slow
I like that feature – I can add a video from YouTube in about 10 seconds now!!
I’m not sure, I think it might be.
What do you think of the new theme?
I like it better than the previous one. It is easier to find articles with the categories placed on top. But a site map is a must so pls work on that soon.
I had to remove it because it was causing a problem when people left comments. It’s the #1 priority today though
I have an alternative now that will do until I find a better plugin – it now lists the 99 most commented upon posts.
Is this even a serious question?
There’s rather a lot of people who believe it’s true Joseph!
Hi! Wow I like this newspaper look. COOL!!!!
I keeping this one for quite some time.. my first semi-custom design.
Glad you like it.. still a lot of modifications to make and bugs to fix though.
Can you let me know if you find any bugs Aruna?
Hi
I am not able to see the site map
I know.. the plugin that powers that was causing problems elsewhere so I had to remove it. Hopefully I can find an alternative.
Working fine Scam I cant see any bugs.
What is that icon Jon uses??Is it coke or something?
If John Titor was real he should have spoken to world leaders and told them how to prevent the war shouldnt he?
Eureka! Scammy! I got my avatar here.
wooohooo !!!
How did you get it working in the end?
Tcheky Karyo played the role he is a French actor
I’ve never heard of him either!!
On a side note, I have received an email hoax or two about Nostradamus’ predictions.. I’ll have to see if I have saved any of them..
Nostradamus 1994 movie
I particularly like the prediction he makes as to which colour pig will be served for dinner.
All pigs are pink so what was so interesting about that prediction?
don’t be a racist Scam! Just kidding.
Black pigs do exist.i don’t want to spoil it for you that is if u want to watch the film
I’ve never heard of the film so I might have to search around to find it. It certainly sounds like something I might enjoy though.
i loved the movie nostradamus
I never realised there was a film actually. Who played Nostradamus?
His prediction about skyscrapers, aircrafts, in his time, hitler are very interesting so is his biography
Don’t you think a lot of his predictions were open to a lot of interpretation though?
I think he was a genius very underrated during his time.
As far predictions are concerned I don’t think anyone can equal Nostradamus and his fame. Time travel is scifi
Nostradamus didn’t get much right though did he Aruna?
The time markings in the great pyramid in Egypt are another matter though…
I have no idea if time travel is possible but it is a concept that fascinates me. I watch everything I can find on the subject from films like Timecop to documentaries. If we can bend time just think what we could go back and do!
I’d go back and ask people to make objections during my wedding ceremony!!
I’ve made a living and successful television career out of time travel
Why couldn’t you be Billie Piper.. at least she looks alright!
I’d love to believe that time travel was possible as it would allow us to go back and right so many wrongs. In terms of physics though it just isn’t possible is it?
There are some physicians who would argue it is possible. I’m no expert but I believe Einstein’s theory of relativity and gravity does allow for it doesn’t it?
This is definitely a hoax. If time travel was possible surely people would come back for far more interesting things than an ancient computer and a few photos.
If you could go back in time what would you do then Col?
That’s easy, I would bet everything I had on a horse or the lottery safe in the knowledge I was going to win.
Then, when I became a billionaire, I’d marry Paris Hilton.
I really don’t know why men rate Paris Hilton
I think she’s ugly.
I still haven’t decided if it is a hoax or not, but in view of your question.
John Titor, a soldier, was on an “official” mission to retrive, amongst other things, the IBM C5100 (first prototype of a portable pc) to use its ability to read post-dated and in-use machine language (the “language” used to program and use computers). The reason he gave was that most of the out of date information went lost in time and, especcially, because of the war.
In addition to that he “openly” talked about this feature of the IBM computer, being the first person to do so, since it was a secret only the team of 12 computer scientist that built it knew. It was confirmed only in 2004 that that feature was true and was to be kept secret to prevent industrial espionage. (This could have also reduced the probability of Titor’s true identity to 12 people…never confirmed)
As far as the photos and books, he states that they were needed to replace what went lost in the future. If we had misplaced the Magna Charta (the first constitution in the world that gave “rights” to people) and never knew the contents, I believe someone (governments and constituional scholars especcially) would try to retrieve the contents, if given the opportunity to do so. (They wouldn’t steal our Magna Charta because it would only anticipate their problems)
I would like to know (in regards to this story)
-the so-called parents who turned in the video in Nebraska…who are they? did they have a child in the year 1998? where is the video of Titor’s departure today?
-could Titor have been one of the IBM computer scientist that worked on that particular model or someone who had access to that type of information?
(sorry for seeming such a nerd, but I never was in these types of things until I read about his explanations on the black holes and knowing people who are working on something similar at the CERN lab in Switzerland)
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