TIME TRAVEL - WHO IS JOHN TITOR?

THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY...or is it?

Back on January 27th, 2001, a guy calling himself 'John Titor' posted on Art Bell's message board, Post to Post explaining how he was a Time Traveller from the year 2036.

"Greetings. I am a time traveller from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975. My "time" machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit."

When he was active on the boards he would answer questions posed by others regarding things relating to but limited to time travel, physics, and many other topics. Overall, John Titor came across not as a LARPer but as an actual person telling what he deemed to be the truth. 

He claimed he travelled back in time to retrieve this IBM computer because of its unique ability to emulate programs from APL and BASIC programming languages and that it would help prevent a UNIX Timeout in 2038. 

Now when this was first mentioned by John Titor all but a few were unaware that this machine did in fact have this capability. It was only a few engineers who worked on the IBM 5100 who knew of this and the information regarding this did not come out into public knowledge until after John Titor's post. 

As time passed, he would go on to give more details about HIS past (our possible futures) and these titbits of information would spark many imaginations. From a United States Civil War in 2004, where the 'American Federal Empire' would be nuked by Russia, to how the United States would be ruled by FIVE regional presidents. He described the post-apocalyptic world he lived in and by all accounts, it didn't sound too bad going on his descriptions. 

In all his correspondence with those on the forums, he would always refuse to give details of anything that would allow others to use that information to financially gain from it, avoid death or influence their future in any way. John gave quite a bit of information on his life in the future and how things were around him. 

Even though John appeared to be very knowledgeable in aspects of quantum science, things like CERN and many other things he could not have possibly known as they were not published or out in the viewing range of others like the Segway  (aka Project Ginger) or YouTube, many still claimed him to be a fraud. 

Here are a few people many who have researched him and believe it to be a hoax think he could actually be:

Larry Haber: He lives in Florida and is an entertainment lawyer. He represents John Titor's 'family' in all aspects relating to the time traveller. He is also CEO of The John Titor Foundation Limited Liability Corporation which holds the rights to Titor's 177th Military Unit insignia. It also published a book which was a collection of all of the posts of John Titor.

(source: Who Authored the John Titor Legend?) Richard and Morey Haber: Brothers of the above-mentioned Lawyer, one of which was the VP of security at a Cyber Security firm called Beyond Trust (a little info about the company from 2016). This little gem is a high indicator to some that he plays a large role in the hoax of John Titor.  Joseph Matheny: This man has worked in the tech sector since 1993 and in various companies such as Adobe and Netscape. He is the holder of many patents but what piques the interest of many of the researchers of the origins of Titor is that he was the go-to guy on all things related to the Internets first alternate reality game, Ong's Hat (click to find out more). There are others but these were the main players that I could find. So although I didn't answer the question I posed in the title, I do hope I have given a little food for thought on the topic and to some a little information, they may not have already read. Do I believe John Titor is a time traveller? I honestly do not know, there are some very strong arguments on both sides of the fence. Just when I think I have settled on one side I read something that lifts me and sets me right back on the fence. It is fair to say that if not for the connection to Art Bell and his extremely popular Talk Radio show John Titor would have died out and wasted away into the obscure corners of the conspiracy mind.

Is he a time traveller? I guess we will never truly know as even if confessed to being him, the person would have to PROVE it and let's face it, how is that possible considering