Ep 204: John Titor

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David Flora

Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Do a show on a time travel AND Internet legend? Flori-duh! The time is nigh to learn about what your future may have in store as Flora tackles the tale of John Titor! An Internet legend 20 years in the making, the story of the time traveler John Titor is chock full of future claims, physics, and maybe something else. Who was the mysterious traveler that claimed to be from 2036, and why did he post on Internet forums in 2001? With a harrowing tale of a dark and dangerous future, his captivating claims and interesting mission through time have entranced and entertained people for years. Having no apparent motive other than to speak with the residents of his past, he remains one of the most enigmatic puzzles to come out of the early days of the Internet. While the claims were dubious, he did provide a hoard of knowledge about physics, history, and culture. Join David as he delves deeply into the story, claims, and investigations of a still-growing Internet icon. Just make sure to bring an extra canister of O2 for the ride! Music Division, Enter the Maze, Danse Macabre, Hiding Your Reality, I Can Feel It Coming, Myst on the Moor, Intuit256 - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Sources

First Fax: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2012/12/05/john-titor-the-first-fax/
Second Fax: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2012/12/17/john-titor-the-second-fax/
Nov ’00 Chat Log: http://www.johntitor.com/Pages/ChatLog01.htm
Complete Post2Post Thread: https://scorpionofscofflaw.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/complete-posts-from-art-bells-post-to-post-message-board.pdf
Hub: http://www.anomalies.net/category/exclusives/john-titor/
Summary: http://www.grunge.com/98398/untold-truth-time-traveler-john-titor/
Machine Detail: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/02/04/john-titor-the-man-with-the-machine/
Predictions: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2012/02/23/a-look-at-john-titors-most-popular-predictions/
Titor website: http://www.johntitor.com/
Patent App: https://www.google.com/patents/US20060073976
IBM 5100: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc/pc_2.html
Unix Timeout: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm
Anonymous. Conviction of a Time Traveler. Alaska Holdings, LLC, 2010. Print.
Sauve, Mike. Who Authored the John Titor Legend?. Mike Sauve, 2016. Print.

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0:19.0	Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036.
0:27.0	I'm 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.
0:34.8	The unit is powered by two top-spin dual positive singularities that produce a standard
0:40.1	offset tipler sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.
0:46.0	This was posted on January 27th 2001 to Art Bell's Post-to-Post BBS Forum.
0:53.5	The poster, under the handle of Time Travel Underscore Zero, identified himself as John
0:59.2	Teeter and wrote for months on the Post-to-post boards, describing his time travel methods, his purpose for traveling, and a rather horrific near future.
1:10.0	A soldier from Central Florida, his mission was to retrieve computer hardware from the past that could fix software problems in the future, making him a real-life chrononaut.
1:21.0	His postings ended with a farewell including answers and advice and then he
1:26.2	faded into internet legend. But that forum wasn't the only one he visited, nor
1:31.7	was it his first public contact with the past.
1:35.4	And while it's sinfully easy to dismiss time travel out of hand, there's a reason why John's
1:40.4	story grew.
1:42.2	There's a reason we're still talking about him almost two decades
1:44.9	later. The level of detail and speed with which he answered questions and provided pictures gave
1:51.0	pause. The seeming lack of objective or ulterior motive provoked
1:55.9	speculation. But the dire events he spoke of just on the horizon which would reshape society
2:02.3	as we know it. Those seized attention.
2:06.8	And while believers and skeptics debate his actuality and investigations have pointed narrowed
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