TIME TRAVEL TESTIMONY AND THE ‘JOHN TITOR’ FIASCO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2010
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Around 1998, internet postings began appearing under the alias ‘Timetravel_0’. This alias was later replaced by ‘John Titor’, and it's as such I'll designate the posts' author(s). Remarkably, Titor claimed to have time-travelled from 2036 on a mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 in 1975. Titor refrained from public appearances and any evidence for his story remains web-bound but before closing shop c. March 24th 2001, he described various future events, e.g.:
Y2K is a disaster. Many people die on the highways when they freeze to death trying to get to warmer weather.
Cancellation of the Olympics after 2004 due to world conflict.
America will soon be engaged in civil war with itself; a civil war that we'll see the beginnings of during 2004 and 2005, escalating until it is indisputable by 2008.
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