Timeline of TempleOS

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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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Time period Key developments
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. He begins his career as an intern at Ticketmaster.
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.

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Year Month and date Event type Details
1969 December 15 Personal Terrence Andrew "Terry" Davis is born in West Allis, Wisconsin.[1][2][3]
1970 January 4 Personal Terry is baptized at St. Leonard's Catholic Church in Muskego, Wisconsin.[4]
1980s Career At some point during his teens, Terry "bagged groceries and taped drywall and worked in a deli".[5]
1987 Personal Terry apparently sees Heart in concert.[6]
1988 May 15 Personal Terry receives his Sacrament of Confirmation at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Goodyear, Arizona.[4]
1988 Personal Terry claims he cheated on two problems on the SAT by "talking in the hall during the break".[7]
1988 fall Career Terry begins college at Arizona State University.[3]
1990–1996 Personal Terry claims he "was as atheist as they came" during this period.[8]
1990–1996 Career 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] 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.[12]
1991 Personal Terry apparently has a girlfriend around this time.[13]
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."[14]
1992 December 18 Career Terry receives his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering major) from Arizona State University.[3]
1992 December Career Terry graduates from Arizona State University.[9] After graduation Terry stays in Tempe, Arizona to continue working at Ticketmaster.[2]
1994 Terry writes SysSim, a physics simulator, while working on his master's degree. SysSim would later be expanded and renamed to SimStructure.[12]
1994 December 16 Career Terry earns his master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.[2][3]
1993 (approximate) Personal 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."[15] 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."[16]
1994 Terry begins working on Terry's Protected Mode Operating System (TPMOS).[12]
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.).[11]
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 July 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.,[11] 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".[12]
1999 September 9 Personal Terry allegedly runs over a CIA agent with his car.[17][7] This episode is often repeated.
2000–2001 Career Terry writes SimStructure, a physics simulation software, for H.A.R.E., his company.[11] SimStructure was originally written in 1994 and called SysSim at the time.[12]
2001–2002 Career Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies,[11] which he calls "a company doing chips to allow printer cartridges to be refilled".[12]
2001 April 14 The first Internet Archive snapshot of the H.A.R.E. SimStructure website is from this day.[18]
2003 July 13 The first Internet Archive snapshot of Terry's subdomain on the H.A.R.E. website is from this day.[19]
2003 August 7 – October 15 Online activity Sometime during this period, Terry uploads a huge rambling document on the H.A.R.E. website.[20]
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.[12]
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".[21][22]
2004 May 7 The first Internet Archive snapshot of the JustRighteous website is from this day.[23]
2005 December 29 Around this time, TempleOS is known as the J Operating System.[24]
2006 July 2 Around this time, TempleOS is known as LoseThos.[25]
2007 Personal Terry gets a 64-bit CPU.[10]
2008 October (approximate) Online activity Terry joins Reddit as losethos.[26]
2008 November 29 Online activity Terry creates the losethos account on Hacker News.[27]
2009 October 5 The LoseThos subreddit, r/LoseThos, is created.[28]
2010 September 2010 Online activity Terry joins Twitter as losethos.[29]
2011 TempleOS development Terry says he hires Cody Rigby, an artist, around this time for $3,000 worth of pixel art.[30][31]
2011 July 2 Online activity Terry's first post on Facebook (checked as of March 17, 2017) is from this day.[32]
2011 December 10 Online activity Terry joins Stack Overflow.[33]
2012 January 5 Online activity Terry begins commenting using Disqus on various blogs around this day.[34]
2012 January 12 Online activity Terry writes his first answer on Stack Overflow.[35]
2012 March 1 HolyC is still known as "LoseThos C+" around this time.[36]
2012 August 29 Online activity Someone shares LoseThos on MetaFilter. Terry ends up in the thread and comments a bunch as the user "losethos".[37]
2012 September 27 Online activity Terry joins Reddit as SparrowOS.[38]
2012 September 29 The SparrowOS subreddit, r/SparrowOS, is created.[39]
2012 October 2 TempleOS development SparrowOS version 1.0 is released.[40]
2013 March TempleOS development TempleOS's name changes from "SparrowOS" to "TempleOS".[41][42]
2013 March Online activity Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.[43]
2013 August 8 Online activity Terry comments on jwz.org.[44] Several months later Jamie Zawinski would share TempleOS on the site.[45]
2013 October 11 Online activity Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.[46]
2013 December 26 Online activity Terry answers a question on Quora for the first time.[47]
2014 August 31 Online activity Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.[48]
2014 September 21 Online activity Terry joins Reddit as RandomCodeWalkThru.[49]
2014 December 15 Online activity The TempleOS subreddit, r/TempleOS_Official, is created.[50]
2016 March 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.[51]
2016 March 31 Personal On a live stream on this day, Terry announces that his cockatiel, Percival, is dying. He goes on to talk about [52]
2016 April 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."[53]
2016 May 16 Personal Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.[54]
2016 December 1? Online activity Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.[55][56][57][58]
2017 February 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.[59]
2017 March? Online activity /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
2017 March 15 Online activity Terry's YouTube account is suspended for 90 days.
2017 March 16 Online activity Terry updates his fans on the status of his live streams. He says the live stream was suspended for porn.[60]

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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 2.6 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. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 "The LoseThos IBM PC Operating System: x86_64, open source, free, public domain - history". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  13. ↑ "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. 
  14. ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on thebunsenburner.com.". June 19, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "The Standard TempleOS PC". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. May 2, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "Home Automation & Robotic Equipment". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Soloman Consulting". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  20. ↑ "New Page 1". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "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. 
  23. ↑ "Home". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  24. ↑ Thom Holwerda (December 29, 2005). "The J Operating System". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  25. ↑ "Blank". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  26. ↑ "overview for losethos". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Profile: losethos". Hacker News. Retrieved March 16, 2017. created: 3028 days ago 
  28. ↑ losethos. "moderators - r/LoseThos". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  29. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter". archive.fo. July 8, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  30. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". YouTube. March 21, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. So I hired an artist about five years ago, paid him $3,000 […] He made the art. He put penises on everything, but I like this. 
  31. ↑ "Credits". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  32. ↑ "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on ThinkProgress.". July 2, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  33. ↑ "User Terrence Andrew Davis". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  34. ↑ "Don't be STUPID: GRASP SOLID!". December 27, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  35. ↑ Terrence Andrew Davis (January 12, 2012). "Answer to Moving decimal places over in a double". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  36. ↑ Terry A. Davis. "Differences". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  37. ↑ "An Operating System for Songs from God.". MetaFilter. August 29, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  38. ↑ "overview for SparrowOS". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  39. ↑ 10thchris. "moderators - r/SparrowOS". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  40. ↑ "The Sparrow Operating System". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  41. ↑ "SparrowOS is now TempleOS - r/SparrowOS". reddit. March 27, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  42. ↑ "Terry just released "SparrowOS: Anguish songs" on YouTube. Also features timed text! - r/SparrowOS". reddit. March 1, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  43. ↑ "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. November 3, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  44. ↑ "A light has gone out on the web.". jwz. August 8, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  45. ↑ ""It's 640 x 480. That's what God said. VGA."". March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  46. ↑ "TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System". Slashdot. October 11, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  47. ↑ 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. 
  48. ↑ "NewBe TempleOS". The Iso Zone Forums. August 31, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  49. ↑ RandomCodeWalkThru. "overview for RandomCodeWalkThru". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  50. ↑ RandomCodeWalkThru. "moderators - r/TempleOS_Official". Retrieved March 19, 2017. 
  51. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". Retrieved March 15, 2017. 
  52. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". March 31, 2016. So, my poor bird is dying. That's Percival, I don't know if you can hear him. He's uh, he was coughing up blood. That started a month ago so he hasn't died yet. He's like uh sixteen years old or something? I don't know. […] My sister raised the cockatiels, uh, 1996, maybe? I don't know. Anyway, so that's a downer, my dying Percival. 
  53. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". YouTube. April 13, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. Percival, my bird, is dying. […] Percival started coughing up blood about a month ago. Then he got a little bit better. But I think he's gotten worse. So … this is kind of a death watch. So I'm waiting for him to die. [laughs] I live in kind of an old environment. All I do is go to dentist and doctors. My parents go to dentist and doctors. And that's all we do. We watch TV. They go to the casino. […] I feel like I've … I don't really have any … But, 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. But I live in a very kind of a old … I think I like it. [laughs] Now that you mention it. I'm glad that there aren't any kids in my life. […] If you have a tooth crowned or something, I think teeth are the first reminder of mortality. I think that's when it begins to hit you. Because they don't come back, and that's it. So, I don't know when my bird's gonna die. So this is kind of weird. I don't think I've ever seen a dead body. So this bird's taking months to die. You know this is something that happens all over the world all the time. 
  54. ↑ "Index of /Family3_86-99". Retrieved March 16, 2017. Last Modified 16-May-2016 
  55. ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101002500". December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  56. ↑ "Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account - r/TempleOS_Official". reddit. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  57. ↑ "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101214983". December 2, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  58. ↑ "/g/ - Technology (Full Images)". December 3, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  59. ↑ "Terry A Davis Live Stream". YouTube. February 27, 2017. 
  60. ↑ "TempleOS: Update on Live Stream Status". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
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