Alias John Titor: Time-travel and the 2024 Election

by James O'Brien

On November 2nd in the year 2000 a man with the alias TimeTravel_0 posted a message on an internet discussion board called the Time Travel Institute Forum. He claimed to be a soldier from 2036 who was part of a military time-travel project. His name was John Titor. Over the next four months, Titor’s 570 internet posts would describe an upcoming civil conflict over a U.S. presidential election, which led to a period of chaos, famine and global nuclear war.

His mission was to retrieve an IBM 5100, a model which features a hidden ability to “speak” multiple code languages. The Plan was to change the Past from the Future. Through the outcome of a single election.

John Titor said that if I joined his mission, we'd change the course of history. If you're reading this, we did.

This is our story.

231 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2025

About the author

James Edward O'Brien is an English radio presenter and podcaster. He is one of the presenters on talk station LBC, presenting on weekdays between 10 am and 1 pm, hosting a phone-in discussion of current affairs, views and real-life experiences. He hosted a weekly interview series with JOE titled Unfiltered with James O'Brien. He has previously occasionally presented Newsnight for the BBC.

Reviews

[David B. Paige · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't care for writing style.

It's rare that I'm tempted to speed read a story or skip sentences or paragraphs just to get it over with. I always try to finish anything that I start reading but this tale had me regretting the time I had wasted when I was done.