Timeline of TempleOS
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This is a timeline of TempleOS, a biblical-themed operating system, and its creator Terry A. Davis.
Big picture
Time period | Key developments |
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1969–1995 | Terry seems to have a pretty normal life during this period. He is raised a Catholic but becomes an atheist around 1990. He goes to college at Arizona State University and earns both a bachelor's and master's degrees. |
1996–2003 | Terry begins to be afflicted by various mental conditions around this period, possibly including mania, paranoia, and schizophrenia. He continues to hold a couple of jobs, but relatively little is known about this period. |
2003–2010 | Terry begins to develop what would eventually be called TempleOS. Very little is known about this period. |
2011–2017 | TempleOS development continues, but seems to finish by the end of 2014. During this period, Terry begins posting in various online discussion platforms, including Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Quora, and Facebook. |
Full timeline
names: TPMOS, HOPPY, Doors, Davos, J, LoseThos, SparrowOS. When did each name come along?
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Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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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'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] |
External links
- Official website
- Wikipedia entry for TempleOS
- InstallGentoo Wiki entry for TempleOS
- InstallGentoo Wiki entry for Terry Davis
References
- ↑ "The Temple Operating System". Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Arizona State University Unofficial Transcript" (PDF).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "496-12.jpg". Retrieved March 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "The Temple Operating System". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
My older sisters liked Heart. I saw Heart in concert in like 1987.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 James Sanders (January 20, 2014). "TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments". TechRepublic. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "TempleOS History". Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 "Terry A. Davis". Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on thebunsenburner.com.". June 19, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "The Standard TempleOS PC". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. May 2, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Profile: losethos". Hacker News. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
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- ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter". archive.fo. July 8, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on ThinkProgress.". July 2, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "User Terrence Andrew Davis". Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Terrence Andrew Davis (January 12, 2012). "Answer to Moving decimal places over in a double". Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "An Operating System for Songs from God.". MetaFilter. August 29, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. November 3, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
- ↑ "TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System". Slashdot. October 11, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "NewBe TempleOS". The Iso Zone Forums. August 31, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". Retrieved March 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Index of /Family3_86-99". Retrieved March 16, 2017.
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- ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101002500". December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account • r/TempleOS_Official". reddit. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101214983". December 2, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ "/g/ - Technology (Full Images)". December 3, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ↑ "TempleOS: Update on Live Stream Status". Retrieved March 17, 2017.