They’ve come from the future for two reasons: 1) To save us from ourselves; and 2) to make YouTube confessionals
In the year 2000, a time traveler reportedly walked among us. He was from the year 2038, but he drove a 1967 Chevy Corvette. His sweet time ride disrupted gravity using a twin singularity system. This time traveler arrived in present day to stop a civil war in the U.S. He did so by contacting the U.S. intelligence community and convincing them to let 9/11 happen. And it worked. The civil war of 2008 was averted, and the history of the world hopped onto a different timeline.
This isn't the plot of a bad movie. At least, not yet. However, it's probably the most popular internet legend you've never heard of. Not to mention, it's definitely one of the strangest 9/11 conspiracy theories you'll ever come across.
But most of all, it's just the tip of a very weird internet iceberg: The Invasion of the Time Traveler.
In late 2000, in the forums for
Coast to Coast AM, a late-night radio program dedicated to the paranormal, a man named
John Titor began to post about how he was a time traveler. He claimed he was originally sent back to 1975 to pick up an
IBM 5100 computer. His situation was a lot like the Bruce Willis character from
12 Monkeys. Instead of locating a virus, however, he was sent back to find a very specific early IBM portable, one that his grandfather had helped program and assemble. It was vitally important Titor retrieve it so government scientists from the future could use it to fight a legacy computer bug nicknamed "the year 2038 problem." (Which, by the way,
is a real thing.)
Comment: His little tantrum is understandable, where is spring?! But the whole planet is suffering extended periods of cold and completely erratic seasons, yet he's more concerned with his deflated ego, for not receiving praise from his colleagues - if he was a farmer he'd actually have his livelihood at stake; and further down the line, there's the real problem of worldwide food shortages: