Titor claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036, based in Tampa in Hillsborough County, Florida who was assigned to a governmental time travel project. He had been sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he said was needed to "debug" various legacy computer programs in 2036; a reference to the UNIX 2038 timeout error. The 5100 runs the APL, and BASIC programming languages. Titor had been selected for this mission specifically due to the fact his paternal grandfather was directly involved with the building and programming of the 5100.

Read the rest of the story on Wikipedia. Seems in line with your post.

Have a nice day.

More importantly, though, is the fact that pretty much all 64bit machines are already using 64bit time_t's. And hopefully in 30 years the vast majority of machines (at least the important ones) will be 64bit.

.....Sounds like a good idea to me as long as services can get back up and running within a month or so.

For ten years or more those will be replaced so don´t worry.

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"In 2038, anyone with a 32-bit system shouldn't exist."

This wont affect us unless we have a timemachine now which will carry us and our 32 bit machines to 2038 + instantly.

John Titor's complicated journey included a trip to 2000, when he began posting online as part of his mission to study our culture, a culture so superficial as to be willing to give up its freedoms for a little security. Though nobody could have projected back in 2000-2001 that our civil liberties would be seriously threatened by our own government, that has indeed turned out to be the case and Titor's story is now widely believed to have been genuine. Of course right-wingers will deny that because they are uncomfortable admitting that America is headed toward a police state, but it's obviously true to any objective observer.

Fortunately for us, it appears that Titor's visit here may have catalyzed sufficient change for us to modify our timeline by now to be significantly different than the one Titor lived through. The pace of the police state has not progressed at the rate Titor suggested it would (though the hundreds of FEMA detention camps that have been built suggest we are still in great danger of a full-bore American police state) and we may yet avoid the predicted global nuclear war in 2015.

The best part of Titor's story (the Internet is filled with frauds, after all) is that he backed it up with photos, documentation, and general operating principles of his time travel machine, which some scientists believe may actually work. See details at http://www.johntitor.strategicbrains.com/TimeMachine.cfm . It uses twin microsingularities which according to Titor will be first created at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and physicists will learn to trap and 'cool' them so they can be used. Our world may become very much more interesting in the next few years if Titor's device is built and not kept secret.

As far as John Titor, excellent idea if true

That line made me literally laugh!

everybody panic! I need a t100 to reprogram and travel back in time to stop this.

Hm. Think about that one. Medication in 1902 was horrifically expensive. There may not be much difference in price after all.

And yeah, the Wikipedia == true comment was pretty funny.

"The significance of this date in Mayanism stems from the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Maya calendar in 2012, which many believe will create a global "consciousness shift" and the beginning of a new age. This concept was introduced by New Age spiritual leader José Argüelles in his book The Mayan Factor (1987) and promoted at the 1987 Harmonic Convergence. The astronomical conjunction of the black hole at the center of the galaxy with the winter solstice Sun on December 21, 2012, referred to by John Major Jenkins in Galactic Alignment as having been predicted by the ancient Maya and others, is a much-anticipated event in Mayanism. Although Jenkins suggests that ancient Maya knowledge of this event was based on observations of the "dark rift" in the Milky Way as seen from Earth, others see it as evidence of knowledge imparted via ancient contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (ancient astronaut theories). The relevance of modern "dark rift" observations to Pre-Columbian and traditional Maya beliefs is strongly debated, and academic archaeologists reject all theories regarding extraterrestrial contact, but it is clear that the promotion of Mayanism through interest in 2012 is contributing to the evolution of religious syncretism in contemporary Maya communities."

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