John Titor posted on the Time Travel Institute as the unregistered guest TimeTravel_0 from 2 November 2000 to March 2001. Start with the three threads where the posts were made. They are kept exactly as they stood in 2000–01 and are closed; the replies members added later, and any new discussion, are in each thread’s companion topic. After them come the verified index of every post and the other primary sources.
The three original threads
- Time-travel Paradoxes!
Paul opened it on 23 October 2000 with the grandmother paradox. TimeTravel_0 posted here 50 times, from November 2000 to January 2001, until the thread reached the board’s 11-page limit.
Later discussion: the discussion since 2014 - Topics Limited to 11 Pages?
TimeTravel_0 started this one himself on 26 January 2001, when the first thread hit that limit. His 19 posts here run to March 2001, including the one saying he would be “leaving this worldline to return home to 2036”.
Later discussion: the discussion since 2007 - Parallel Universe
Roel van Houten opened it on 20 December 2000, asking whether parallel universes all started simultaneously. TimeTravel_0 replied 4 times, from December 2000 to January 2001.
Later discussion: the discussion since 2003
Every Titor post, verified
Titor Archive: index and verification lists all 78 of his posts here, by thread and date, each with a link to its archived original.
In March 2004 a new board account took the name TimeTravel_0; it is not him (that account is today’s rookie0307).
Art Bell’s Post-to-Post Forum
Titor’s “I am from 2036” thread on Art Bell’s Post to Post board (bbs.artbell.com), as archive.org saved it while it was live:
- April 2001: page 1 · page 2 · page 3 · page 4 · page 5 · last page
- Later pages, saved in 2013: page 6 · page 7 · page 8
The Yareisa IRC conversation (14 October 2000)
Original “Yareisa” IRC Conversation with TimeTravel_0, October 2000: the chat log in which TimeTravel_0 introduces himself as John, posted by Darby, who verified in about 2005 that the conversation took place.
The Art Bell faxes
The Art Bell Faxes: two unsigned faxes sent to Art Bell in 1998, describing CERN singularities, a temporal barrier at 2564 and a promise of photographs, two years before TimeTravel_0 posted a word.
Other threads from his time on the board
- TIME TRAVEL SURVEY-please take. (Oct 2000): a reader survey Titor answered · later replies
- The engineering aspect (Nov 2000): where Titor made his first post, on 2 November 2000 · later replies
- Some Social questions for Time Traveler_0 (Dec 2000): questions put to him about life in 2036; one reply from Titor
- Is there only one method of time travel? (Jan 2001): one reply from Titor
- Where is Time Travel 0? (Mar 2001): his “I’m still here” reply · later replies
Asked of him, never answered: Time Travel 0 a question… (Feb 2001, a request for his machine plans) · Timetravel_0 reply please !!! (Apr 2001, after he had gone)