Year |
Month and date |
Event type |
Details
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1969 |
000000002024-12-15-0000December 15 |
Personal |
Terrence Andrew "Terry" Davis is born in West Allis, Wisconsin.[1][2][3]
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1970 |
000000002024-01-04-0000January 4 |
Personal |
Terry is baptized at St. Leonard's Catholic Church in Muskego, Wisconsin.[4]
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1980s |
|
Career |
At some point during his teens, Terry "bagged groceries and taped drywall and worked in a deli".[5]
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1987 |
|
Personal |
Terry apparently sees Heart in concert.[6]
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1988 |
000000002024-05-15-0000May 15 |
Personal |
Terry receives his Sacrament of Confirmation at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Goodyear, Arizona.[4]
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1988 |
|
Personal |
Terry claims he cheated on two problems on the SAT by "talking in the hall during the break".[7]
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1988 |
fall |
Career |
Terry begins college at Arizona State University.[3]
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1990–1996 |
|
Personal |
Terry claims he "was as atheist as they came" during this period.[8]
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1990–1996 |
|
Personal |
Sometime during his "atheist days", Terry plays in a band that has a groupie named Mel ("short for Melissa"), who is reportedly "into witchcraft" and not "very attractive". As Terry's involvement in the band ends, the band leader informs Terry that Mel wants to perform oral sex on Terry. Terry calls this sexual encounter "a disaster".[9]:48–50 Later he says "Mel was a sympathy fuck sort of".[10]
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1990–1996 |
|
Career |
Terry works at Ticketmaster.[11] He claims he was "basically, an intern" (in the beginning?).[12] He works as a software, hardware, and mechanical engineer.[13] During 1990–1994 he works on Ticketmaster's VAX operating system and ticketing system. During 1994–1996 he switches to the hardware department; he says he works on "a bar code reader, a laser ticket printer prototype and a wall line voltage conditioner" but none make it to production. He also works on an "RS232 bar code reader network device" that makes it to production.[14]
|
1991 |
|
Personal |
Terry apparently has a girlfriend around this time.[15]
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1991 |
fall |
Personal |
Terry gets a grade of C in partial differential equations.[3] "C in partial differential equations was the semester I did 20 days hotel time in jail."[16] "That was the semester I went to jail at nights."[17]
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1992 |
000000002024-12-18-0000December 18 |
Career |
Terry receives his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering major) from Arizona State University.[3]
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1992 |
000000002024-12-01-0000December |
Career |
Terry graduates from Arizona State University.[11] After graduation Terry stays in Tempe, Arizona to continue working at Ticketmaster.[2]
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1994 |
|
Career |
Terry writes SysSim, a physics simulator, while working on his master's degree. SysSim would later be expanded and renamed to SimStructure.[14]
|
1994 |
000000002024-12-16-0000December 16 |
Career |
Terry earns his master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.[2][3]
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1993 (approximate) |
|
Personal |
Terry gets a 486.[12] Of this period, Terry says: "I have fond memories of 1993, when I made a wire-wrapped ISA data acquisition card which plugged into my 486 and had some analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog convertors."[18] Details of this year are repeated elsewhere: "I started my operating system in 1993 when I had real mode DOS." and "I had just got a 486 and I wanted to get to 32-bit mode like [the] 32-bit VAX at work."[19]
|
1994 |
|
TempleOS development |
Terry begins working on Terry's Protected Mode Operating System (TPMOS).[14]
|
1996–1997 |
|
Career |
Terry designs a "3 axis stepper-motor-driven milling machine" for a company he starts called Home Automation and Robotic Equipment (H.A.R.E.).[13]
|
1996 |
middle of the year |
Personal |
Terry "started seeing people following [him] around in suits and stuff". He leaves Arizona in his car and ends up in Marfa, Texas.[2]
|
1996 |
000000002024-07-01-0000July |
Personal |
Terry's mental state calms and he returns to Arizona.[2]
|
1996–2003 |
|
Personal |
Terry apparently has a manic episode every six months during this period.[2]
|
1997–1999 |
|
Career |
Terry works for Xytec Corp.,[13] which he calls "a company porting image processing software to Linux from Sun and doing support for the guys making the FPGA's for image processing".[14]
|
1999–2001 |
|
Career |
For four months sometime in this period, Terry works at a deli.[9]:38
|
1999 |
000000002024-09-09-0000September 9 |
Personal |
Terry allegedly runs over a CIA agent with his car.[20][7] This episode is often repeated.
|
2000–2001 |
|
Career |
Terry writes SimStructure, a physics simulation software, for H.A.R.E., his company.[13] SimStructure was originally written in 1994 and called SysSim at the time.[14]
|
2001–2002 |
|
Career |
Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies,[13] which he calls "a company doing chips to allow printer cartridges to be refilled".[14]
|
2001 |
000000002024-04-14-0000April 14 |
Online activity |
The first Internet Archive snapshot of the H.A.R.E. SimStructure website is from this day.[21]
|
2002 |
000000002024-05-10-0000May 10 – 000000002024-09-03-0000September 3 |
Personal |
Terry exchanges a series of emails with someone from Graphic Technologies. These emails are made available in a 128-page Word document called "Ira 2002.doc". Note that there could have been more emails in this period not included in the document, as well as emails outside of this time period.[9]
|
2003 |
000000002024-07-13-0000July 13 |
Online activity |
The first Internet Archive snapshot of Terry's subdomain on the H.A.R.E. website is from this day.[22]
|
2003 |
000000002024-08-07-0000August 7 – 000000002024-10-15-0000October 15 |
Online activity |
Sometime during this period, Terry uploads a huge rambling document on the H.A.R.E. website.[23]
|
2003 |
|
TempleOS development |
Terry begins working on TempleOS around this time.[2] At this time, the operating system is renamed from "TPMOS" to "HOPPY", as he thought the OS would a product for H.A.R.E., his company.[14] In a Hacker News comment in September 2013, Terry says that he "worked long hours" for the first seven years (2003–2010), but that after that, he has "been idle".[24]
|
2004 |
|
Personal |
Terry calls this year "hell". He says he kept "getting locked up by the doctors" so ran away from home to California. He was apparently homeless for all or part of this period. Afterwards he calls this "a funny war story".[25][26]
|
2004 |
000000002024-05-07-0000May 7 |
Online activity |
The first Internet Archive snapshot of the JustRighteous website is from this day.[27]
|
2005 |
000000002024-12-29-0000December 29 |
|
Around this time, TempleOS is known as the J Operating System.[28]
|
2006 |
000000002024-07-02-0000July 2 |
|
Around this time, TempleOS is known as LoseThos.[29]
|
2007 |
|
Personal |
Terry gets a 64-bit CPU.[12]
|
2008 |
000000002024-10-01-0000October (approximate) |
Online activity |
Terry joins Reddit as losethos.[30]
|
2008 |
000000002024-11-29-0000November 29 |
Online activity |
Terry creates the losethos account on Hacker News.[31]
|
2009 |
000000002024-10-05-0000October 5 |
Online activity |
The LoseThos subreddit, r/LoseThos, is created.[32]
|
2010 |
000000002010-09-01-0000September 2010 |
Online activity |
Terry joins Twitter as losethos.[33]
|
2011 |
|
TempleOS development |
Terry says he hires Cody Rigby, an artist, around this time for $3,000 worth of pixel art.[34][35]
|
2011 |
000000002024-07-02-0000July 2 |
Online activity |
Terry's first post on Facebook (checked as of March 17, 2017) is from this day.[36]
|
2011 |
000000002024-12-10-0000December 10 |
Online activity |
Terry joins Stack Overflow.[37]
|
2012 |
000000002024-01-05-0000January 5 |
Online activity |
Terry begins commenting using Disqus on various blogs around this day.[38]
|
2012 |
000000002024-01-12-0000January 12 |
Online activity |
Terry writes his first answer on Stack Overflow.[39]
|
2012 |
000000002024-03-01-0000March 1 |
|
HolyC is still known as "LoseThos C+" around this time.[40]
|
2012 |
000000002024-08-29-0000August 29 |
Online activity |
Someone shares LoseThos on MetaFilter. Terry ends up in the thread and comments a bunch as the user "losethos".[41]
|
2012 |
000000002024-09-27-0000September 27 |
Online activity |
Terry joins Reddit as SparrowOS.[42]
|
2012 |
000000002024-09-29-0000September 29 |
Online activity |
The SparrowOS subreddit, r/SparrowOS, is created.[43]
|
2012 |
000000002024-10-02-0000October 2 |
TempleOS development |
SparrowOS version 1.0 is released.[44]
|
2012 |
000000002024-12-04-0000December 4 |
Online activity |
Terry's first YouTube video on his old sparrow-icon YouTube account is from this day.[45]
|
2013 |
000000002024-03-01-0000March |
TempleOS development |
TempleOS's name changes from "SparrowOS" to "TempleOS".[46][47]
|
2013 |
000000002024-03-01-0000March |
Online activity |
Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.[48]
|
2013 |
000000002024-08-08-0000August 8 |
Online activity |
Terry comments on jwz.org.[49] Several months later Jamie Zawinski would share TempleOS on the site.[50]
|
2013 |
000000002024-10-03-0000October 3 |
Online activity |
Terry's first YouTube video on his current Terry A Davis account (checked as of March 18, 2017) is from this day.[51]
|
2013 |
000000002024-10-11-0000October 11 |
Online activity |
Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.[52]
|
2013 |
000000002024-12-26-0000December 26 |
Online activity |
Terry answers a question on Quora for the first time.[53]
|
2014 |
000000002024-08-31-0000August 31 |
Online activity |
Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.[54]
|
2014 |
000000002024-09-21-0000September 21 |
Online activity |
Terry joins Reddit as RandomCodeWalkThru.[55]
|
2014 |
000000002024-12-15-0000December 15 |
Online activity |
The TempleOS subreddit, r/TempleOS_Official, is created.[56]
|
2016 |
000000002024-01-03-0000January 3 |
Personal |
Terry gives $800 in charity to KNPR, a Las Vegas radio station.[57]
|
2016 |
000000002024-03-16-0000March 16 |
Online activity |
Terry possibly does his first live stream. This is the first live stream visible on his YouTube account as of March 15, 2017, but there might have been earlier ones.[58]
|
2016 |
000000002024-03-31-0000March 31 |
Personal |
On a live stream on this day, Terry announces that his cockatiel, Percival, is dying. He goes on to talk about [59]
|
2016 |
000000002024-04-13-0000April 13 |
Personal |
Terry goes on a monologue about his bird and death. He reflects on his life as well with quotes like "I made God's temple and now I'm waiting for something to happen. I've been fighting to bring it to fruition but … I'm in some kind of prison or something so basically now I just kinda … kill time. But, I'm God's high priest, so, there's nothing better to do with your time than kill time with Mr. God and enjoy divine intellect all day long."[60]
|
2016 |
000000002024-05-16-0000May 16 |
Personal |
Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.[61]
|
2016 |
000000002024-12-01-0000December 1? |
Online activity |
Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.[62][63][64][65]
|
2016 |
000000002024-12-15-0000December 15 |
Personal |
Terry pays $100 for "Bet about CIA surrendering".
|
2017 |
000000002024-01-26-0000January 26 |
Personal |
Terry donates $800 to Wikipedia.[66]
|
2017 |
000000002024-02-27-0000February 27 |
Personal |
In a live stream, Terry explains that he used to have a bird named Percival, who died. He says that later, a different bird of the same kind showed up at his house, and he "smashed" this new bird.[67]
|
2017 |
000000002024-02-01-0000February? |
Online activity |
/g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
|
2017 |
000000002024-03-15-0000March 15 |
Online activity |
Terry's YouTube account is suspended for 90 days (this length of the ban was repeated on /g/ but it's not clear how they figured it out).
|
2017 |
000000002024-03-16-0000March 16 |
Online activity |
Terry updates his fans on the status of his live streams. He says the live stream was suspended for porn.[68]
|
2017 |
000000002024-03-24-0000March 24 |
Online activity |
Terry's live stream returns. He uses a different (older) YouTube account to circumvent the live stream suspension on his usual account. In a later live stream on the same day, Terry sends $200 each to two separate people via PayPal. Terry's justification is that it's some sort of offering to God and that he will get a song as a result.[69][70]
|
2017 |
000000002024-03-30-0000March 30 |
Online activity |
Terry begins streaming on Hitbox rather than YouTube. He announces this change in a YouTube video.[71] He uses the account terrenceadavis1 on Hitbox.[72]
|
2017 |
000000002024-04-06-0000April 6 |
Online activity |
Someone apparently hijacks Terry's Hitbox account.[73]
|
2017 |
000000002024-04-07-0000April 7 |
Personal |
Terry's obsession with Amy Teitel begins around this day.[74]
|
2017 |
000000002024-04-08-0000April 8 |
Online activity |
Terry creates a new Hitbox account, called TerryADavis.[75]
|
2017 |
000000002024-04-09-0000April 9 |
Online activity |
Someone hijacks Terry's new Hitbox account. He returns later that day as TerrenceAndrewDavis.
|
2017 |
000000002024-05-03-0000May 3 |
Online activity |
Terry's Hitbox account is suspended "due to Terms of Use Violations".[76]
|
2017 |
000000002024-05-09-0000May 9 |
Online activity |
Terry begins his "Paladin Walks", where he video records himself walking in his neighborhood while talking.[77] By the end of the day he would post the 39th Paladin Walk.[78] Starting around May 6, he had begun recording himself walking outside, but at this time the term "Paladin Walk" was not yet used. Most of the videos are of him walking around during the day, but some are at night.[79]
|
2017 |
000000002024-05-18-0000May 18 |
Online activity |
Terry is banned from YouTube.[80][81]
|
2017 |
000000002024-06-02-0000June 2 |
Online activity |
Both of Terry's YouTube accounts are deleted, with the channels each stating "This channel was closed and is no longer available" and videos stating "This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account".[82] Most of his website, templeos.org, also disappears, giving a 404 response.[83] In a video published the following day, he talks about how his parents didn't like him filming around the house, "sharing family secrets", and "violating the family trust". He says he received a warning about being kicked out of the house, describing it as a "fire drill".[84] In another video, he explains that he "redid" his website and that there were too many files on the old one.[85]
|
2017 |
000000002024-07-01-0000July–August |
Personal |
Terry goes a little crazy during this period, including recording himself yelling loudly at his parents.[86][87][88]
|
2017 |
000000002024-08-13-0000August 13 |
Personal |
In a video uploaded to his website on this day, Terry claims to begin taking his medication again.[89]
|