Drive by Titoring made me physicly laugh aloud.Friends?
Of course.I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Here is a little help for those of you that arrived late for the dance.
It would appear, at the Titor story's inception, it was to find out why the future beyond 2564 is empty..
The following iterations developed it into the titor story we know and love today.
2 Faxes in 1998 introduced the story's premise, they were contradictory even then.
In November of 2000 Timetravel_0 (who later became John Titor) began posting right here on TTI
In January of 2001 he began posting on Post to Post as John Titor.
In March of 2001 he stopped posting and has not been heard from since.
If you wish to read the posts he wrote, they are located here;
http://timetravelinstitute.com/threads/time-travel-paradoxes.943/
and here;
http://timetravelinstitute.com/threads/topics-limited-to-11-pages.1016/
The post to post items are here;
http://www.anomalies.net/original-john-titor-posts-post2post-art-bell-forum-part-1/
http://www.anomalies.net/original-john-titor-posts-post2post-art-bell-forum-part-2/
http://www.anomalies.net/original-john-titor-posts-post2post-art-bell-forum-part-3/
and many places on the internet.
The faxes are here;
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2012/12/05/john-titor-the-first-fax/
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2012/12/17/john-titor-the-second-fax/
(The comments on these listings are pretty good too.)
and elsewhere, if you want to see slightly differing versions.
As far as the "researching" of Titor, there is little to go on, outside of his posts and the replies he made to questions..., aside from, the speculation of the researchers. It appears that each researcher adds their own special speculation to the speculation of the researchers that came before. I am aware of someone that claims to have accumulated 7 or 9 volumes of information on Titor... can anyone say...obsession. If real information on Titor was available, the person that posted "as" Titor would have been discovered by now. I know I'm going to hear the usual; you just don't know where to look; you just aren't bothering to look; you're too lazy to look; and my favorite... You just need to read the book. I guess Mr. Recon's book has become "The Holy Book of Titor". Whatever, I have zero interest in paying for his, or anyone else's, "unqualified" opinions. The discussions carried out between Titor and the posters engaging him give all the story, an intelligent person would need, to arrive at a conclusion, real or fake.