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Time Travel
Before google, before amazon, weblogs, myspace and youtube, the internet was a place for only 2 things; Message boards and pornography. This is not a post about pornography.
* Historical aside: Back in college I studied the history of message boards. It seems that some guy by the handle Mr. Bungle was the first message board asshole big enough to receive a universal banning.
Message boards are strange and wonderful places. Right now, I visit about 6 or 7 of them. This is a post about the one I’ve discovered recently: The Time Travel Institute’s Time Travel Forum.
The TTI forum is a place where people pretend that they’re time travelers and no one else believes them. Most of the stories are puerile, adolescent dreck (sorry) but some of them qualify as a totally new genre of sci-fi literature. I’m absolutely serious about this. Some of these threads are worthy of publication in science fiction magazines and journals. There are some outstanding stories here, written in a format and medium that no one has ever used before.
Most of the TTI stories come from the John Titor school of the future. The John Titor character invented this entire genre a few years ago when he started posting on a message board claiming that he was a visitor from the not-too-distant future. Read up a little on him (or not) and then tackle this thread. If nothing else, it’s a great story.
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