The John Hancock "John Titor" was not introduced until January 2001, when TimeTravel_0 began posting at the Virtuosity Bell BBS Forums (which imperative a heading or pseudonym for every account). The Titor posts ended in stayed March 2001. Eventually, a cipher of the threads became corrupted; but Titor's posts had been saved John Titor on subscribers' hard drives and were copied to Anomalies.net, along with new discussions of the skill behind Titor's day travelling as well as his predictions. Around 2003, various websites reproduced Titor's posts, re-arranging them into narratives. Not all refer to the original dates posted.
Titor claimed to be on a stopover in the 365-day calendar year 2000 for "personal reasons"; i.e., to collect pictures lost in the (future) civil strike and to visit his family, of whom he spoke often. Titor also said he had been, for a few months, trying to perceptive anyone that would listen about the threat of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease spread through beef products and about the possibility of civil bloodshed within the United States. When questioned about them by an online subscriber, Titor also expressed an into in unexplained mysteries such as UFOs (which in his eternity were still as yet unexplained)