Well, he got some of it right. But as far as the effects of Y2K38 described in Titor’s Saga - he made that up. Titor wasn’t specific about 2038 because - he had no idea about 2038 other than speculation. He was traveling to the past, not the future and 2038 was in his future.
But let’s give the devil his due and analyze what the dude says: the world is in ruins, almost half of the world’s population died in the nuclear war, electric grids are down, society is in chaos, there is a negative population growth rate due to radiation induced sterility, food is scarce and…Y2K38 is a top priority problem for them requiring an entire society to devote its post apocalypse nightmare scarce resources on time travel machine research to recover a 1st generation mini computer? This world of chaos and no electric grids is wholly dependent on Unix based computers that will stop working in 2038 even though the problem has been known since before 1970? What world that has no electric grid, no food and is in total chaos has bet its entire survival on a gridless computer grid? Somehow, when all the hydrogen bombs fell and all those old 32-bit Unix-based embedded systems survived the EMP, heat, fires, blast, rubble and are still running the entire world? Really?! Hell, we don’t depend on 32-bit Unix/Linux today. Unix in 64-bit systems won’t time out for another 292,000,000,000 years. Embedded systems with 32-bit Unix-based OSs will have a date issue. But if the embedded gadget doesn’t depend on the actual date (most don’t) it will just roll back to December 1910 and start over, never missing a beat.
This is the problem with the entire Titor Saga. People, well a few people, want it to be true. They imagine that it is true. But they never stop, look at what Boomer wrote and logically analyze it. On even a cursory inspection of his saga it all falls apart starting with the (non) physics and ending with the war.
And all of this begs the question: Why would any government want to kill John TItor (assuming this is all real)? He’d already said his piece so killing him won’t change that. And what did he say that would be considered dangerous? What super-duper secret did he let out of the bag in any post? E=mc^2? ds^2 = ct^2-x^2-y^2-z^2? You learn that in 1st year physics. It’s, in terms of physics, dumbed down baby math that Boomer found on Wiki or some other online public source. That’s the sum total of all the physics that he posted. He posted about a civil war and a world war? He was the only conspiracy theorist anywhere on earth posting about civil war and world war? Of course he wasn’t. He wasn’t even close to the only one on Post-2-Post or
TimeTravelInstitute.com.
TItor/TTO wasn’t even the OP on his most famous thread here, “Time Travel Paradoxes”. The OP was a sad, sad soul from County Derry, Ireland - Paul Curran. Paul was posting about time travel hoping to be able to change the past. Why? Because some bullies beat him senseless for no reason which caused him permanent brain damage that he was having a difficult time living with. The thread was his plea for help. How did our hero TimeTravel_0 handle it? He jumped in and hijacked the thread to his own purpose which caused Paul to slip away. After two more posts Paul completely disappeared from this site. (We chatted for a while but he also left the chat room for good after a few weeks) His sad story was posted elsewhere. “Hope to Time Travel”
http://www.hopetotime-travel.freeservers.com/