Who is John Titor?

In the year 2000 a fellow started posting messages on various Internet forums proclaiming himself a soldier and time traveler from the year 2038 sent back in time to fetch an IBM 5100 computer. At first his handle was timetraveler_0 before he switched to his more commonly seen ID, John Titor.

He wove a fantastic tale of a future where we are looked upon as an egocentric, lazy, and foolhardy era that lead to a second US civil war, which in turn lead to a nuclear holocaust.

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