The Time Travel Tale of John Titor

Time travel tales fascinate and their implications boggle most of us who live in just one time period.  Coast to Coast Host George Noory relives the John Titor tale with Oliver Williams, who maintains dedicated website, www.johntitor.com.   The Time Travel Tale of John Titor  begins, according to the website, "... on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036." Titor quickly gained a following with his observations on CERN and the virtually unknown IBM 5100. "One of Titor's earliest assertions was that CERN would discover the basis for time travel sometime around 2001, with the creation of miniature black holes about half a year after his departure,"  excitement followed as an article about mini-black holes around that time seemed to corroborate the Titor tale, according to the John Titor Wikipedia entry. 


The IBM 5100 had a virtually unknown ability to translate computer code that IBM removed from later machines as it represented potential for significant loss of business.  John Titor stated his mission from the year 2036: 

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John mentions that the 5100 had some sort of inbuilt ability to translate computer languages that was unknown or unpublished before 2036.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."

Time Traveler John Titor amazed followers with his CERN revelation and other observations. The present writer finds the IBM 5100 mission goal compelling. Many statements made by Titor have not panned out, but it's truly a mind-stretching exercise that is most important. You can relive more of the Time Travel Tale of John Titor @veryhistory.