15 Facts About John Titor

1.

John Titor and are pseudonyms used on the Time Travel Institute and Art Bell's Post-to-Post forums during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036.

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2.

John Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war.

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3.

Name "John Titor" was not introduced until January 2001, when TimeTravel_0 began posting at the Art Bell BBS Forums .

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4.

John Titor was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which he said was needed to debug various legacy computer programs in 2036 – a possible reference to the UNIX year 2038 problem.

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5.

John Titor said he had been selected for this mission specifically, given that his paternal grandfather was directly involved with the assembly and programming of the 5100.

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6.

John Titor claimed to be on a stopover in the year 2000 for "personal reasons", to collect pictures lost in the civil war and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often.

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7.

John Titor said he had been, for a few months, trying to alert anyone that would listen about the threat of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease spread through beef products and about the possibility of civil war within the United States.

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8.

When questioned about them by an online subscriber, John Titor expressed an interest in mysteries such as UFOs, which he claimed remained unexplained in his time.

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9.

John Titor suggested that UFOs and extraterrestrials might be travelers from much further into the future than his own time, with superior time machines.

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10.

John Titor described it as beginning in 2005, with civil unrest surrounding the presidential election of that year.

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11.

John Titor was vague as to the exact motivations and causes for World War III.

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12.

John Titor pointed to the contemporary conflict between Arabs and Israel as not a cause, but rather a milestone that precedes a hypothetical World War III.

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13.

John Titor claimed that as a 13-year-old in 2011, he joined the Fighting Diamondbacks, a shotgun infantry unit in Florida, for at least four years.

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14.

John Titor claimed that the "Everett–Wheeler model of quantum physics", better known as the many-worlds interpretation, was correct.

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15.

John Hughston reported that John Titor is a trademark registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the Titor trademark is classified as "Abandoned".

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