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This is a timeline of [[wikipedia:TempleOS|TempleOS]], a biblical-themed operating system, and its creator Terry A. Davis.
 
This is a timeline of [[wikipedia:TempleOS|TempleOS]], a biblical-themed operating system, and its creator Terry A. Davis.
  

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This is a timeline of TempleOS, a biblical-themed operating system, and its creator Terry A. Davis.

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Year Month and date Event type Details
1969 December 15 Terrence Andrew "Terry" Davis is born in West Allis, Wisconsin.[1][2][3]
1970 January 4 Terry is baptized at St. Leonard's Catholic Church in Muskego, Wisconsin.[4]
1980s At some point during his teens, Terry "bagged groceries and taped drywall and worked in a deli".[5]
1987 Terry apparently sees Heart in concert.[6]
1988 May 15 Terry receives his Sacrament of Confirmation at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Goodyear, Arizona.[4]
1988 Terry claims he cheated on two problems on the SAT by "talking in the hall during the break".[7]
1988 fall Terry begins college at Arizona State University.[3]
1990–1996 Terry claims he "was as atheist as they came" during this period.[8]
1990–1996 Terry works at Ticketmaster.[9] He claims he was "basically, an intern" (in the beginning?).[10] He works as a software, hardware, and mechanical engineer.[11]
1991 Terry apparently has a girlfriend around this time.[12]
1991 fall Terry gets a C in partial differential equations.[3] "C in partial differential equations was the semester I did 20 days hotel time in jail."[13]
1992 December 18 Terry receives his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering major) from Arizona State University.[3]
1992 December Terry graduates from Arizona State University.[9]
1994 December 16 Terry earns his master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.[2][3]
1993 (approximate) Terry gets a 486.[10] 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."[14] 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."[15]
1996–1997 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.).[11]
1996 middle of the year Terry "started seeing people following [him] around in suits and stuff".[2]
1996 July Terry's mental state calms and he returns to Arizona.[2]
1996–2003 Terry apparently has a manic episode every six months during this period.[2]
1997–1999 Terry works for Xytec Corp.[11] (The sperm bank?)
1999 September 9 Terry allegedly runs over a CIA agent with his car.[16][7] This episode is often repeated for some reason.
2000–2001 Terry writes SimStructure for H.A.R.E., his company.[11]
2001–2002 Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies.[11]
2003 Terry begins working on TempleOS around this time.[2]
2004 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".[17][18]
2007 Terry gets a 64-bit CPU.[10]
2008 November 29 Terry creates the losethos account on Hacker News.[19]
2010 September 2010 Terry joins Twitter as losethos.[20]
2011 July 2 Terry's first post on Facebook (checked as of March 17, 2017) is from this day.[21]
2011 December 10 Terry joins Stack Overflow.[22]
2012 January 12 Terry writes his first answer on Stack Overflow.[23]
2012 August 29 Someone shares LoseThos on MetaFilter. Terry ends up in the thread and comments a bunch as the user "losethos".[24]
2013 March Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.[25]
2013 October 11 Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.[26]
2013 December 26 Terry answers a question on Quora for the first time.[27]
2014 August 31 Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.[28]
2016 March 16 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.[29]
2016 May 16 Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.[30]
2016 December 1? Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.[31][32][33][34]
2017 March? /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
2017 March? Terry announces that he has killed a bird.
2017 March 15 Terry Davis's YouTube account is suspended.
2017 March 16 Terry updates his fans on the status of his live streams. He says the live stream was suspended for porn.[35]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Temple Operating System". Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Jesse Hicks (November 25, 2014). "God's Lonely Programmer". Motherboard. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Arizona State University Unofficial Transcript" (PDF). 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "496-12.jpg". Retrieved March 15, 2017. 
  5. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  6. ↑ "The Temple Operating System". Retrieved March 17, 2017. My older sisters liked Heart. I saw Heart in concert in like 1987. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 James Sanders (January 20, 2014). "TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments". TechRepublic. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "TempleOS History". Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 "Terry A. Davis". Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  12. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 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. 
  13. ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on thebunsenburner.com.". June 19, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  14. ↑ "The Standard TempleOS PC". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. May 2, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 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. 
  19. ↑ "Profile: losethos". Hacker News. Retrieved March 16, 2017. created: 3028 days ago 
  20. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter". archive.fo. July 8, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on ThinkProgress.". July 2, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "User Terrence Andrew Davis". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  23. ↑ Terrence Andrew Davis (January 12, 2012). "Answer to Moving decimal places over in a double". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  24. ↑ "An Operating System for Songs from God.". MetaFilter. August 29, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  25. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. November 3, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  26. ↑ "TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System". Slashdot. October 11, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  27. ↑ Terrence Andrew Davis (December 26, 2013). "Terrence Andrew Davis's answer to What is it like to be a geek in a prison?". Quora. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  28. ↑ "NewBe TempleOS". The Iso Zone Forums. August 31, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  29. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". Retrieved March 15, 2017. 
  30. ↑ "Index of /Family3_86-99". Retrieved March 16, 2017. Last Modified 16-May-2016 
  31. ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101002500". December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  32. ↑ "Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account • r/TempleOS_Official". reddit. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  33. ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101214983". December 2, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  34. ↑ "/g/ - Technology (Full Images)". December 3, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  35. ↑ "TempleOS: Update on Live Stream Status". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
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