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Who is This Time Traveler? Why is He Here? Does He Carry a Warning?

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A person named “John Titor” started posting on the Internet one day, claiming to be from the future and predicting the end of the world. Then he suddenly disappeared, never to be heard from again.

This is our planet’s bleak future: a second Civil War splinters America into five factions, leaving the new capital based in Omaha. World War III breaks out in 2015, starting with Russia and the U.S. trading nukes and ending with three billion dead. Then, to top it all off, a computer bug delivers where Y2K sputtered, destroying our world as we know it. That is, unless an audacious time traveler successfully traverses the space-time continuum to change the course of future history.

In late 2000, that person signed onto the Internet.

A poster going by the screennames “TimeTravel_0” and “John Titor” on a variety of message boards, beginning with the forum at the Time Travel Institute, claimed he was a soldier sent from 2036, the year the computer virus wiped the world. His mission was to head back to 1975 in order to snatch-and-grab an IBM 5100 computer, which had the necessary equipment to fight the future virus. (His detour to the year 2000 was simply to get a little R&R while visiting his three-year-old self, ignoring every fabric-of-time paradox rule from time-travel stories.) Over the next four months, Titor responded to every question other posters had, describing future events in poetically-phrased ways, always submitted with a general disclaimer that alternate realities do exist, so his reality may not be our own. In between dire urgings to learn first aid and stop eating beef—Mad Cow was a serious threat in his reality—Titor provided a number of technical specs regarding how time travel worked, with overly complex algorithms and grainy, hard-to-make-out photos of his actual machine. (Which, yes, of course, was an automobile: a 1987 Chevy Suburban.) He even showed off his cool futuristic military insignia.

On March 24, 2001, Titor offered his final piece of advice (“Bring a gas can with you when the car dies on the side of the road”), signed off forever, and returned home. He was never heard from again.

Today, everything posted online gets a healthy dose of skepticism. Let’s call it the Post-Snopes Era. We’ve been conditioned to suspect everything.

IN 2003, TITOR FAN Oliver Williams—some may want to put “fan” in quotation marks, simply because of the numerous unsubstantiated theories that Williams himself is/was Titor—launched JohnTitor.com, which tracks Titor’s predictions and offers a compendium of all of his 151 posts. In 2004, members of George Mason University threw together a multimedia rock opera based on Titor. A summary of the tale at io9.com garnered over 103,000 hits in 2011. And, according to IMDB, a feature-length film about Titor is in the pipeline. What seemingly should have been dismissed as a four-month hoax, the work of some nerd killing time at his boring temp job, somehow turned into a phenomenon.

Read More http://www.psmag.com/science/the-mystery-of-john-titor-hoax-or-time-traveler-57001/



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    • Arte Vespule

      Same crap as always. Just a huge Photoshop expedition. Anyone can do it now. Seriously. And the “someone teleporting in Japan” is just a viral marketing thing for a Japanese video game. Seriously dude, get a grip….

      • Equalizer

        Q – Why is He Here?
        A – To promote Photoshop

      • mac dee

        photo shop is just one of many art programs avail for public use there are also dozens of movie making programs as well with special effects, it’s no wonder that you tube has overused so many of these, but it’s the story that’s interesting not the art work, besides NASA loves programs like photo shop, did you know they are busy smudging out moon anomalies that they don’t want the public to see. from hoaxers to truth seekers everyone’s using programs like photo shop, it’s just that some are better at it then others.

    • jay67

      he says the world ends 2015 but he comes from the future ? too bad they don’t each logic in schools anymore instead of PC B.S.

      • Reaper

        wtf is your problem? as a paid troll/disinformationist you should know better—-he said world war III not the end of the world—-dude, you got a weak rebuttal go back to that military/cia school or were you last in the class

      • mac dee

        jay67,
        Reaper has a valid point, everyone loves to discredit stories they find hard to believe, besides it is so much fun to check back on your own comments to see how many votes you got,
        but the point is, no one claims the end of the world in this story, he talks about world war 3, its obvious there are survivors left to talk about it, with that said wasn’t Noah a survivor of a catastrophic flood who survived it and lived to tell us all about the end of the world at one time.

    • gspat

      Argh…

      If you’re going to tell the story, tell it right…

      He’s from 2036, he went back in time to get a computer from 1975 because it’s architecture had the ability to talk to mainframes. There was a concern about a “Y2K type event” happening with UNIX. The old computers were still in use, and that’s why they needed an old IBM to talk to it. He stopped in to 2000 to spend time with his folks in Florida after he got the computer.

      He told about a civil war that turned into a world war that on the world level went nuclear. The civil war was between city/country people (Government vs Civilian). He threw in a lot of tidbits of info and stated that the info might/might not happen to us, depending upon how divergent out timeline was from his.

      You can read the rest from the website.

      OP… Please read the story first before you write about it! Please?

      • mac dee

        gspat, I really enjoy reading everyone’s comments, but don’t you find it awesome that you were intrigue enough with this fantastic story, that you went ahead and did your own research?
        some of you people on here write such detailed comments, I am curious as to why you aren’t writing news stories here yourselves for all of us to read.

    • happychappy

      You need a life. Go out inhale fresh air, go to a pub. Do something. You need help mac dee

      • mac dee

        happychappy, I always get a chuckle when I read comments like yours, nothing like the pot calling the kettle black,
        thanks for the tip, I’m sitting on the balcony of my penthouse suite with an ocean view as I write this comment :)

    • carsonking

      Tidy. Ha ha ha ha ha ha, love the people who are really making an effort to discredit.

    • 7evenSins

      Time traveller!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

      It is those that actually believe this mendacious crap it is those who knowing it to be
      fallacious still post it!

    • Alan

      traverses the space-time continuum to change the course of future history

      In thee event tha anything happens, blame this guy^

      He does realise it doesn’t change thee ‘event’ going back(forwards), but in fact traverses it to arise, materialise. :neutral:

    • dcselby1

      What a load of Photoshopped crap!

    • HIDDENTEXTOR

      here are a couple of the hidden texts lines being worked on today
      In these lines it is stated that Putin has the Eloim behind him, (with technology the Amerikans can only DREAM of getting from THEIR ET backers)
      >>>>>8 6 2 Luyfant, print Malte fubit fera eftainte,
      FATcat PETULANT MILITARY FALL FEBRUARY FIFTEEN,
      FLIRT PRENATAL MUTANT, super soldiers
      REPUTE MUTILATE INFANT –
      ABLE FLAUNT ULTRA IMPURITY TALENT.
      ABRUPTLY MUTATE INFANTILE.
      IS NASTY SATAN FIFTY BRUTE Marduk of 50 names
      >>>>>8 6 3 Sardon, Mauris traitera decepuante,
      AS (Eloim) AMPUTATE INTERCOURSE discussions,
      AND ERADICATE DISPARATE PROUD elite
      AMATEUR NUMERATION ARTISAN ”illuminati”
      ”AMPUTATE” cut off PROUD MAN SETS IDEA
      AIM URINATE ON RAT RACE: SURRENDER DNA
      sounds ominous [HE IS] A NECTAREOUS sickly sweet
      RETARDED RASPUTIN – he who thought to rule a country
      by controlling their monarchy, interesting that Rasputin DID consume
      cedar oil, nectar of the Siberian Cedar
      ADORES ERADICATORS’ IDEA; SATANISM STAR CREATURE-MAN,
      AIM AROUSES RETARDED NECTAR (bees) ;
      CREATURE MAD ON RADIATE spread DISASTER AREA
      AS RANSOMED SATANISM CREATURE ERADICATED NUMERATION
      (the 324 years in the calendar) READ in the forum
      titled The SHARS of NIBIRU And The MISSING 324 YEARS
      ……………………………………………………………………………………….
      8 6 2 Luyfant, print Malte fubit fera eftainte
      AS, ANT, mantid AIM SECURE ADORE (Libra, a pun because he is) PUTIN:
      AIMS RETARD ASSORTED RADIATION – ORNATE RUDE MASSACRE
      AMATEUR (elite ARID DREAM, RARE DESECRATION
      NAUSEATE SAD NOSTRADAMUS, SMARTER PUTIN AND A CREATORS
      TRUE: RA, ACE ADEPT NOSTRADAMUS IN IRE – anger
      IN TRUE APES (pun) ERADICATION
      Ahpees are those from Sirius who ‘belong to’ those from Chertan,
      the red Oannes which are also behind the Vatican
      REPEAT A CREATORS ERADICATE RUIN,
      ETNA/ATEN UP ERITREAN under which is the ‘Serbian Basin alive’
      ICIER DEPARTURE, URANITE EA PREDICTS IN EAR
      ears of corn means in Virgo, influenced by the ”Dragon en Virgo”?
      URANITE means in the heavens, ADORE means in Libra, which Putin is
      ‘Repeat’ can also mean in Gemini, a separate event
      NOSTRADAMUS, AND PEACE, IRRITATE RUDE ANU
      EERIER DATA UNITE ENTIRE NOSTRADAMUS, PARCS AIDE – TRUE
      ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
      >>>>>8 6 4 Geneve a Londres a coq trahyfon fainte (‘Q’ is ‘K’)
      KEEN ASHEN-FACED HEAVENLY GOD, INNOVATOR OF ATEN class asteroid
      GREATLY FORNICATE CENTRE OF ETNA
      AS (Ayse’) FREAKY-FOREHEAD ANT CONNIVE KEEN AFFECTION
      NEANDERTHAL STONE AGE, (us) FORSAKEN ”GROOVILY” (yuppy)
      HALO A (Eloim) THREATEN GODFORSAKEN SNEAKY CLOVEN-HOOFED
      FREAK, EVIL ONE FANCY DEAF TO COVENANT, OF AGES TYRANNIES
      removing 324 years. KEEN OF EDEN DEFORESTATION VAGRANCY THEN FLAY strip,
      FAVORED FREAK CONTAGIONS CHARLATANRY vaccinations,
      CONNIVANT OF FLAKEY SOREHEAD INSOLENT TEENAGER
      via g.m.o. food & drinks
      HEAVENLY OANNES’ DAFT YANKEE ARCH FOE Muslim ORATOR KING president
      REVOLTING. READ: GOAT-LIKE FERVENT FANCY
      GREEK FORNICATOR (homosexual?)
      FAKE THRIFTY RENEGADE AFFECTED VOLCANO
      false economy of setting off volcanoes, which they are trying to do right now,
      testing at Mt St Helen’s to see if this will ”alleviate” upcoming events.
      ARROGANT ELITE SO KEEN ON EARTH VAGRANCY OFFENSE –
      FANCY AVENGES OF DARK ON SNAKE. EQ. equals OANNES
      VANITY DEVIANTLY DERANGE – AFFECTED GONORHEAL DEGENERACY
      using genetic manipulation, made it worse
      HO: GOOD VALIANT HERO-LIKE E.N.E etraterrestrial Noetic two brains entity
      KEEN ON FENESTRATION small windows OFFENSIVE,
      usually this means via computers, but could mean via time lines
      ANNOY RELEVANT CROONING YANKEE FATHEADS elite

      • mac dee

        hidden exterior
        what is your source that you are decoding hidden messages from, is it a bible verse?
        could you explain, for all of us, instead of just posting your findings, thank you.

    • agw nonsense

      Your all wrong, it’s the next “Doctor” taking a break from filming.<:o)

    • Fillipper

      (1 – (U/c)2)1/2
      (U=speed, c=speed of light)

      the time dilation factor

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