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Ya'll World is filled with Time Travel and Traveler's claims. The most widely speculated is the John Titor from 1998 to 2001 on then site Time Travel Institute forums. A 2009 investigation suggested that the entire affair was a hoax created by Larry Haber, a Florida entertainment lawyer, and his brother John Rick Haber, a computer scientist. These claims have never been verified. Nor these individuals ever accepted and actively denied the claims as being behind the Handle name John Titor.
The first posts using John Titor's military symbol appeared on the Time Travel Institute forums on November 2, 2000, under the username TimeTravel_0, The name "John Titor" was not used at that time. The posts discussed time travel in general, the first one being the "six parts" description of the components required for a working time machine and responses to questions from other posters about how such a machine might work. These early posts tended to be short. A second thread was also made due to shortcomings of the forum software used at the time.
Titor first appeared on July 29, 1998, and sent two faxes to Art Bell, the host of a very popular and nationally broadcast radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. The two faxes told the story of the discovery of time travel in 2034 and the devastation that followed the Y2K disaster.
In January 2001, the person calling themself “John Titor” used the pseudonym TimeTravel_0 and began posting at the Art Bell Post-2-Post BBS Forums. The final Titor post was made in late March 2001.
Later, around 2003, various websites compiled Titor's posts, re-arranging them into narratives. Not all of these sites refer to the original dates that the messages were posted on the forums.
In his online postings, Titor claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036, based in Tampa, Florida. He said that he was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and that as part of the project he was sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which was needed to debug various legacy computer programs that existed in 2036 – a possible reference to the UNIX Year 2038 Problem.
Titor said that he had been selected for this mission because his paternal grandfather was directly involved in the original assembly and programming of the 5100. He attempted to provide proof of this by describing unpublicized features of the 5100, which led some people to believe that a computer scientist must have been behind the postings.
Titor said that he was on a stopover in the year 2000 for "personal reasons" to collect pictures lost in the future Civil War, and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often.
Titor also said that for several months he had been trying to warn anyone who would listen about the potential threat of Jakob Disease spread through meat products, and about the possibility of an upcoming civil war within the United States.
Titor's purported military insignia.
The first posts using John Titor's military symbol appeared on the Time Travel Institute forums on November 2, 2000, under the username TimeTravel_0, The name "John Titor" was not used at that time. The posts discussed time travel in general, the first one being the "six parts" description of the components required for a working time machine and responses to questions from other posters about how such a machine might work. These early posts tended to be short. A second thread was also made due to shortcomings of the forum software used at the time.
Titor first appeared on July 29, 1998, and sent two faxes to Art Bell, the host of a very popular and nationally broadcast radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. The two faxes told the story of the discovery of time travel in 2034 and the devastation that followed the Y2K disaster.
In January 2001, the person calling themself “John Titor” used the pseudonym TimeTravel_0 and began posting at the Art Bell Post-2-Post BBS Forums. The final Titor post was made in late March 2001.
Later, around 2003, various websites compiled Titor's posts, re-arranging them into narratives. Not all of these sites refer to the original dates that the messages were posted on the forums.
In his online postings, Titor claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036, based in Tampa, Florida. He said that he was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and that as part of the project he was sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which was needed to debug various legacy computer programs that existed in 2036 – a possible reference to the UNIX Year 2038 Problem.
Titor said that he had been selected for this mission because his paternal grandfather was directly involved in the original assembly and programming of the 5100. He attempted to provide proof of this by describing unpublicized features of the 5100, which led some people to believe that a computer scientist must have been behind the postings.
Titor said that he was on a stopover in the year 2000 for "personal reasons" to collect pictures lost in the future Civil War, and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often.
Titor also said that for several months he had been trying to warn anyone who would listen about the potential threat of Jakob Disease spread through meat products, and about the possibility of an upcoming civil war within the United States.

Titor's purported military insignia.