In the years 2000-2001 a mysterious poster showed up on various Bulletin Boards posting as TimeTraveler_0 and later as JohnTitor. He claimed that he was a US soldier from the year 2036 that had a mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer from the year 1975. He expalined that having stopped-over in 2000 that he could warn people of what was coming in the future. Trouble with the 2004 election results, rebellion in 2008 leading to another US civil war and then N-Day in 2015 when Russia sides with the rebels and nukes the AFE (American Federal Empire) along with the EU and China (allies). He made claims of time travel equipment developed by CERN through artificial quantum singularities (art. black holes) and even presented so-called evidence such as document pages from a manual (C204 Time Displacement Unit), pics of the device and it bending light with a gravitational field, a unit patch, and remarks about money changing appearance. The IBM 5100 has a micro-code that enables it to debug PC mainframes, so Titor claimed that was his task b/c the Net was destroyed and that they had to start all over and were having probems associated with UNIX. Millions of his followers became obsessed with his combination of vague and precise details of the future while Titor explained that since there was a multiverse that no paradoxes were possible and that our future might not be his past but a close alternate... ensuring that his details remain unfalsifiable. In our time none of the major events have happened although some things he said have been interpreted as prophetic for our alternate universe such as Israeli action precedes WW3 (the coming attack on Iran's reactor), the military journals new predictions of a possible World War anywhere from 2015-2020, Russia's rebuilding of arms, new currency being developed using a form of electrochromatics, and emergency alternate capitals in event of nuclear destruction of D.C. (Omaha, Neb listed among them) and most importantly CERN's LHC that is attempting to produce an artificial black hole. Although most believe the man was a supreme hoaxer, neither the FBI nor anyone else could track him down. A private detective, Mark Lynch, investigated the Titor Foundation and its founding CEO Larry Haber only to discover that his brother John Rick Haber was a computer expert. So, no real proof and no admission from anyone. Many believe that John Titor IS John Haber but cannot prove it. They claim that some elements of his background story may come from the 1959 fiction novel "Alas, Babylon" by author Pat Frank (same area detail, apocalypse scenario, Tampa, and a nearby Fort). His book of postings with pics and schematics from the Foundation today sells for over $1350!!! It sold-out in less than a year in 2004. A play has been done and anime DVD in Japan. In the US there is talk of a John Titor movie, but the Foundation claims rights. Re: Time Travel itself, there have only been 3 devices built from the early 20th century to mid-20th century that attempted to attain images from the past or to literally go back to the past. Two British scientists developed a machine that pulled images from the past in the early 20th century, but since no one could explain the images, it was determined a hoax. In WW2 Germany tried to build a Zeitmaschine called Die Glocke (The Bell) which is still being investigated and is surrounded by secrecy- billed as the highest technology of WW2 above the A-bomb and taken by SS General Kammler to the US in exchange for immunity. The third device was built by the University of Milan with various scientists on request fron the Vatican. It was called the Chronovisor and is claimed to have been able to pick-up images form the past. It is claimed that Christ was seen on the cross, but that the machine saw other things and was hurriedly dismantled in the 1950s. Other than those, all other claims have been rejected. FYI