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This is a '''timeline of [[wikipedia:TempleOS|TempleOS]]''', a biblical-themed operating system, and its creator Terry A. Davis.
* where is this from? "Let's get something straight... Mel was a sympathy fuck sort of... with attractive women, I'm not totally impotent... Off the meds, that is... Fucken bastard doctors want to exterminate the Lunitic fringe but the abuse makes us more potent in other ways. At the store recently I had to sneak-out with a hard-on a couple times. I'm older now suffering, I think from age, however. Hard lesson is don't do sympathy fucks... makes both people miserable. That's a homosexaul sort of thing--going for unattractive women out of kindness. (I've decided.) There's a fundamental law of dating and it's binary." https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/59444682#p59450101
* "Praise God for, helium voices." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6260454
Elsewhere he also mentions getting high off gas fumes.
* " I always have a captive audience. They take notes as I write. I'm like a professor on an overhead and I repeat every semester."
"""It can seem less glorious repeating the same stuff. You get better ... better analogies for your sales pitch if it's the operating system...
repeating seems depressing, but its not.
All the disciples went a preached over and over in all the cities. Same thing, many times.
God is nice and says new stuff.
As good as life gets is being God's preacher... dont call my rabbi, though... I'm confused."""
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138383
For hacker news, start at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos&next=5759626
For Ira 2002.doc, start on page 43.
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| 1991 || || Personal || Terry apparently has a girlfriend around this time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720012301/http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2016March/TAD160324.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |quote=Old girlfriends? Vicki Fox mattered to me, 1991. The others meant nothing -- I just did it because it was the thing to do. Makes me crack-up laughing.}}</ref>
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| 1991 || fall || Personal || Terry gets a grade of C in partial differential equations.<ref name="transcript" /> "C in partial differential equations was the semester I did 20 days hotel time in jail."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/terrence.a.davis1/posts/4172188432084 |title=Terrence Andrew Davis commented on thebunsenburner.com. |date=June 19, 2012 |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref> "That was the semester I went to jail at nights."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268965 |title=I got a C in partial differential equations. That was the semester I went to ja... |website=Hacker News |date=August24, 2013 |accessdate=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1992 || {{dts|December 18}} || Career || Terry receives his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering major) from Arizona State University.<ref name="transcript" />
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| 1997–1999 || || Career || Terry works for Xytec Corp.,<ref name="tad" /> 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".<ref name="losethos_history" />
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| 1999–2001 || || Career || For four months sometime in this period, Terry works at a deli.<ref name="Ira_2000_doc">Ira 2002.doc</ref>{{rp|38}}
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| 1999 || {{dts|September 9}} || Personal || Terry allegedly runs over a CIA agent with his car.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/oOsWu |publisher=archive.fo |title=Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter |date=May 2, 2016 |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="sat" /> This episode is often repeated.
| 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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170112.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017February/TAD170204.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |quote=In 2004, they kept locking me up in mental hospitals each time I went for a doctor visit. I tried to run away to California so I would not get locked up. there were cops along the way who thought I was guilty of a crime. I just wanted to escape forced medication and doctors.}}</ref>
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| 2004 || {{dts|May 7}} || Online activity || The first Internet Archive snapshot of the JustRighteous website is from this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wayback.archive.org/web/20040507020240/http://www.justrighteous.org/ |website=JustRighteous |title=Home |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2005 || {{dts|December 29}} || || Around this time, TempleOS is known as the J Operating System.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.osnews.com/story/13117/The_J_Operating_System |author=Thom Holwerda |date=December 29, 2005 |title=The J Operating System |accessdate=March 19, 2017}}</ref>
| 2011 || {{dts|July 2}} || Online activity || Terry's first post on Facebook (checked as of March 17, 2017) is from this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/terrence.a.davis1/posts/2177244159724 |title=Terrence Andrew Davis commented on ThinkProgress. |date=July 2, 2011 |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|December 10}} || Online activity || Terry joins [[wikipedia:Stack Overflow|Stack Overflow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stackoverflow.com/users/1091067/terrence-andrew-davis |website=Stack Overflow |title=User Terrence Andrew Davis |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|January 5}} || Online activity || Terry begins commenting using Disqus on various blogs around this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nikic.github.io/2011/12/27/Dont-be-STUPID-GRASP-SOLID.html |author=Nikita Popov |title=Don't be STUPID: GRASP SOLID! |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 27, 2011}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|January 12}} || Online activity || Terry writes his first answer on Stack Overflow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4937402/moving-decimal-places-over-in-a-double/8830500#8830500 |title=Answer to Moving decimal places over in a double |author=Terrence Andrew Davis |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |date=January 12, 2012}}</ref>
| 2012 || {{dts|March 1}} || || HolyC is still known as "LoseThos C+" around this time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wayback.archive.org/web/20120301221505/http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Doc/Differences.html |author=Terry A. Davis |title=Differences |accessdate=March 19, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|August 29}} || Online activity || Someone shares LoseThos on MetaFilter. Terry ends up in the thread and comments a bunch as the user "losethos".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Songs-from-God |author=dmd |title=An Operating System for Songs from God. |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |date=August 29, 2012 |publisher=MetaFilter}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 27}} || Online activity || Terry joins Reddit as SparrowOS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006113858/http://www.reddit.com/user/SparrowOS |website=Reddit |title=overview for SparrowOS |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 29}} || Online activity || The SparrowOS subreddit, r/SparrowOS, is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/SparrowOS/about/moderators |website=Reddit |title=moderators - r/SparrowOS |accessdate=March 19, 2017 |author=10thchris}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|October 2}} || TempleOS development || SparrowOS version 1.0 is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wayback.archive.org/web/20121006013212/http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Doc/ChangeLog.html |title=The Sparrow Operating System |accessdate=March 19, 2017}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|February}}? || Online activity || /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 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).
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 16}} || Online activity || Terry updates his fans on the status of his live streams. He says the live stream was suspended for porn.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgtHBNIro7k |title=TempleOS: Update on Live Stream Status |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
