It’s Lawrence Haber. He’s an entertainment industry lawyer not an IT lawyer. He’s been a top corporate lawyer for both Disney and Universal Studios. In other words, he works in the area of fiction, not technology. No, he isn’t Titor. He’s a busy attorney who didn’t have time to sit up all night, night after night, posting until 0300 and beyond on this site and Post-2-Post. Some people are convinced that his brother Richard is Titor but there’s not much in the way of evidence to back that up. Did Larry Haber actively participate in the story? I believe that he did. But that’s a very long story that is detailed over many posts over the past 22 years. Too long to repeat. I’ll just suggest that you go and read all of the posts that we’ve archived here.
Yes, a big part of the time travel story, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, was the necessity to invent time travel, assemble soldiers for time travel teams all done in an immediate post apocalyptic nuclear war hellscape where 3 billion people died, just so they could send a man-child “soldier” to recover a 1st generation micro computer`because it could do something that no PC in 2000 could do (but he never said what that fantasy was). It makes no sense at all. There’s nothing that a PC from 2000 could not do both better and infinitely faster than an IBM 5100. Even there his story was inconsistent. Sometimes he said it was an IMB 5100. At other times he said it was an IBM 5110. He’s supposed to have been this highly trained soldier sent on a mission to collect data and a very specific computer - but he can’t keep straight in his mind which model he was supposed to get.
Oh, several folks including Titor’s prime defender “Pamela Moore” suggested that it was just a typo. Of, course - a typo. Except one small detail: If you’re familiar with the story, Pamela asked him to send her “something” that had been through time travel. And so he did. He peeled the strip of tape off of the computer that identified it as an IBM 5100" and sent it to her. She posted it and said it was proof that he had obtained an IBM 5100. She never noticed the laughable irony of that piece of tape. It didn’t read “IBM 5100”. It read “IBM 5110”. It was no typo in his posts. He weaved this web of mystery surrounding the 5100 and didn’t have an IBM 5100 at all. Remember, according Titor’s story only the early models of the 5100, not the 5110 or any other IBM computer, could do the special trick.
No. The IBM 5100 OS was not Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. The OS for the 5100, released in 1975, was Unix. Linux is based on Unix - not the other way around. Linux wasn’t invented until 1991, 16 years after the 5100 was released. By the time Linux was released the IBM 5100 had been out of production for 10 years (1982). Ubuntu wasn’t released until 2004.
Mariana’s Web has a time machine, eh? Mariana’s Web, as such, doesn’t actually exist and it isn’t a person. It’s simply a reference to the “deepest” part of the dark web. It is simply sites and individuals that spoof their identities, locations and use VPN to disguise their IPs. For the most part they are criminals doing online crimes.
