Once, a man named "John Tythor" started posting on the Internet claiming that he was from the future and predicting the end of the world. Then he suddenly disappeared and never appeared again.
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This is the bleak future of our planet: the second civil war will split America into 5 factions with a new capital in Omaha. In 2015, the Third World War will break out, the result of which will be the loss of three billion people.
Then, to top it all off, there will be a computer glitch that will destroy the world we are used to. That is, it will be so if the brave time traveler does not cross the space-time continuum to change the course of history.
It was at the end of 2000.
The poster on various forums took on the network aliases "TimeTravel_0" and "John Titor" and claimed to be a soldier sent from 2036, the year a computer virus destroyed the world. His mission was to return to 1975 to find and capture an IBM 5100 computer that had everything he needed to fight the virus (and in 2000 he ended up to meet his 3-year-old self, ignoring the paradox of the very fabric of time from stories on time travel).
Over the next four months, Taitor answered all the questions the other members had, describing future events in the spirit of poetic phrases, and always pointing out that there are other realities, and our reality may not be his own. In between grim calls to learn first aid and not eat beef - in his reality, mad cow disease was a serious threat - Taitor, using extremely difficult algorithms, uncovered some technical aspects of how time travel works and provided grainy photographs of his time machine.
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On March 24, 2001, Titor gave his last piece of advice (“Take a gas can with you when you leave your car on the side of the road”), logged out forever, and headed back. Since then, he has not been announced again.
Today, anything posted online is taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. We are being attacked by Photoshop professionals, edited films, viral advertising campaigns with huge budgets, as well as Nigerian princesses willing to share their huge fortune in exchange for mere trifles - information about our bank account. Almost under any video someone will write "FAKE!" Taitor's story is from a time when we were all so innocent, a time less than 15 years ago, just before everything began to change.
And the legend of Titoror persists in part because no one ever claimed to be its creator. Since the mystery has not been solved, the legend continues.
"The story of John Titor is popular because some of the stories just get popular," says writer and producer Brian Denning, who specializes in the Titor topic. Among all the stories of ghosts, voices of demons, trickery, or rumors circulating on the Internet, something is getting popular. Why not the stories about Taytor become so popular.
Although there is (tiny, almost scientifically impossible) and one more possibility.
"One of the clues to Taitor," wrote Temporal Recon in an email, "is to assume the likelihood that time travel might be true."
The great thing about time travel is that the story cannot be refuted. If things don't happen the way the time traveler said, it’s because he changed the course of history.
There is one point of view that seems to evolve over time in every mature student of the Titor mystery I have encountered. As the puzzle refuses to add up, and when no one is credible enough with the authorship of the puzzle, the goal of tracking down the cheater slowly begins to morph into the assumption that perhaps, perhaps, time travel may be true. "Well, yes, of course John Tythor did not travel in time," they say, only to cryptically add after a moment, "but let's assume it's true."
Can't the political divisions that continue to divide America into red and blue states be a harbinger of civil war? And lately, the relationship between the US and Russia has been somewhat … strange, right? And 2015, when Russia and the United States will have to bomb each other into oblivion, has yet to happen.
And yet, Temporal Recon wrote something that continues to haunt and haunt me.
He wrote: "There are others."