John Titor: Time Traveler or Mad Man.

Check out this web site; I found it through “The Time Machine Project”. John Titor shocked and confused forum posters across the internet several years ago by claiming to be a real time traveler from the future. He has developed quite a following over the years. This web-site is dedicated to him.

The stated reason John was here in our time was to obtain an IBM computer built in 1975 called a 5100. The 5100 does exist and was manufactured and sold by IBM. It is historically remembered as one of the first portable computers ever mass-produced but it arrived before computers were marketed to the public and quickly passed away in the early eighties.

John claimed he was related to one of the IBM engineers or programmers who worked on the 5100 and that's why he was chosen for this mission. By putting the pieces of his posts together, it appears he journeyed to Rochester Minnesota in 1975 (where the 5100 was created and manufactured), met with his relative who worked on the computer, obtained a 5100 from him and had it altered in some way for use in 2036.

John mentions that the 5100 had some sort of inbuilt ability to translate computer languages that was unknown or unpublished before 2036. The computer would then have been used back in his time to translate or fix broken computer systems.

Based on his explanation, it would appear there must have been an easier way to solve this problem in 2036. If you can travel in time, why go back for a piece of old technology that we find useless? This may seem logical until you realize that even today, NASA scours the Internet looking for old computer parts to keep their systems running.

What may be more interesting is the fact that John had a consistent reason he was willing to discuss for being here at all.

http://www.johntitor.com/

I'm pretty sure the purpose of this forum is to open up additional marketing avenues to your retarded website.

I thought people stopped making webpages that looked like this in the 90's. Seriously, wtf?

Why, seriously omg why, would you ever think, "this looks really good, and I'm going to add tons and tons of content to this beautiful page" ?

I have no affiliation with this web-site or any web-site for that matter. I’m a big fan of time travel movies and books. I found a link to this site on “The Time Machine Project” web-site, which was just a model builder’s web-site for fans of the 1960 film “The Time Machine”.

I thought people stopped making webpages that looked like this in the 90's. Seriously, wtf?

Why, seriously omg why, would you ever think, "this looks really good, and I'm going to add tons and tons of content to this beautiful page" ?

I had one of those people in my old programming class (we did a lot of HTML, instead, because there was some competition thing).  She had a cyan background with a dark-red font that made you sort of jump back when you looked at it.  I tried to indirectly suggest a better colour theme a million fucking times, but she never caught on.  The page looked like shit in the end.

Here's a Wikipedia search on John Titor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor It's fun to read stuff like this even if it's not real.

What do you mean, "not real" ??

There’s a reason that I found a link to the John Titor site on a web-site that is primarily dedicated to a certain branch of science fiction. John Titor is not a real person, he’s a fictitious construct designed to make money, as you rightly pointed out earlier. Being a fan of sci-fi, I can enjoy things like this and even in some ways go along with it.

Um...
fake? I think not

I remember this from years ago.  I thinks its fake from what I have seen.   

from what I have seen.

I'm going to assume that this does not include the future. So you basically aren't adding anything to this conversation.

So you basically aren't adding anything to every single conversation in this forum.

Fixed.

Quote from: narcberry on April 05, 2008, 10:00:31 PM

So you basically aren't adding anything to every single conversation in this forum.

Fixed.

You get more clever by the day. 

JT was a time traveller, but he lied when he said he came from the future, he came from the past in order to steal technology and accelerate the timeline

Quote from: Jack. on April 05, 2008, 11:18:12 PM

Quote from: narcberry on April 05, 2008, 10:00:31 PM

So you basically aren't adding anything to every single conversation in this forum.

Fixed.

You get more clever by the day. 

You should try it yourself.

I thought people stopped making webpages that looked like this in the 90's. Seriously, wtf?

Why, seriously omg why, would you ever think, "this looks really good, and I'm going to add tons and tons of content to this beautiful page" ?

duah he's trapped in the 90's....