John Titor is the name used on several
bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a
time traveler from the year 2036.
[1] In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific
[2]) about events in the near future, starting with events in 2004. However, as of 2012, these events appear not to have taken place; he described a drastically changed future in which the
United States had broken into five smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.
To date, the story has been retold on numerous web sites, in a book, and in a play. He has also been discussed occasionally on the radio show
Coast to Coast AM.
[3] In this respect, the Titor story may be unique in terms of broad appeal from an originally limited medium, an Internet discussion board.