John Titor: Time Traveler—Transmi...
John Titor: Time Traveler—Transmission Intercepted

Stories From the Dawn of Online Identity by Riley Haven

Episode notes

On this episode of Stories from the Dawn of Online Identity, our signal finds a distant station carrying a fascinating broadcast exploring early online posts written by a man calling himself John Titor, who claimed to be a time traveler sent back to retrieve a forgotten machine and warn of a fractured future. Part myth, part message board phenomenon, this episode explores how authority, detail, and timing allowed a story to travel—and linger—long after the signal went quiet.

Keywords
early internet cultureonline identitydigital historyinternet folkloreonline communitiesweb archivesinternet pioneersmedia historyonline historyStories from the Dawn of Online IdentityRiley Havenmidnight radiodigital identity archiveJohn Titortime traveltime traveler