Jan. 6, 2016, 10pm (PDT) - Time Travel, The John Titor Story with Mike Sauve

The story and legend of the unknown man nicknamed John Titor took the Conspiracy and Time Travel groups by storm from 2000 to 2001. It was during this time, someone named "John Titor" starting using that name on several on-line bulletin boards claiming to be a time traveler from 2036.   Titor made numerous predictions about events in the near future, a number of them vague and some quite specific, starting with events in 2004. He described a drastically changed future in which the United States had broken up into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.   Titor claimed to be assigned to a governmental time-travel project. Purportedly, Titor 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. The IBM 5100 runs the APL and BASIC programming languages.   Titor had been selected for this mission specifically, given that his paternal grandfather was directly involved with the assembly and programming of the 5100. Titor claimed to be on a stopover in the year 2000 for "personal reasons", to collect pictures lost in the (future) civil war and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often. And then, after about a year of posts, he vanished: disappeared to who knows where?   Mike Sauve is a big fan of the John Titor story/myth/legend. He has written non-fiction for The National Post, Variety, and HTML Giant. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Feathertale, Filling Station, and elsewhere. His novella Goodbye Pantopon Rose is available from the Chicago Centre for Literature and Photography. His novels The Wraith of Skrellman and The Apocalypse of Lloyd are forthcoming from Montag Press.