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names: TPMOS, HOPPY, Doors, Davos, J, LoseThos, SparrowOS. When did each name come along?
 
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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/03/its-640-x-480-thats-what-god-said-vga/
 
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/03/its-640-x-480-thats-what-god-said-vga/
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When did terry move to las vegas?
 
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the motherboard piece also mentions terry living in washington and some other states i think. when did that happen?
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https://web.archive.org/web/20031203025206/http://www.tdavis.hare.com/
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"In Phoenix, they put some RAF james bond charector in prison (mental hospital) with me... That tripped me out. At one point I feared for my life as I was surrounded by prisoners and the staff wasn't near. Anyway, I eventually befriended the guy and he told me stories of prison riots in Ireland (northern) where the prisoners completely destroyed the facility." -- is this where the IRA stuff comes from?
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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
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| 1969 || {{dts|December 15}} || || Terrence Andrew "Terry" Davis is born in [[wikipedia:West Allis, Wisconsin|West Allis, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/AcctExample/PersonalNotes.html |title=The Temple Operating System |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="gods_lonely" /><ref name="transcript">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221043405/http://www.sparrowos.com/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf |title=Arizona State University Unofficial Transcript}}</ref>
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| 1969 || {{dts|December 15}} || Personal || Terrence Andrew "Terry" Davis is born in [[wikipedia:West Allis, Wisconsin|West Allis, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/AcctExample/PersonalNotes.html |title=The Temple Operating System |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="gods_lonely" /><ref name="transcript">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221043405/http://www.sparrowos.com/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf |title=Arizona State University Unofficial Transcript}}</ref>
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| 1970 || {{dts|January 4}} || Personal || Terry is baptized at St. Leonard's Catholic Church in [[wikipedia:Muskego, Wisconsin|Muskego, Wisconsin]].<ref name="cert">{{cite web |url=http://templeos.org/Family3_86-99/PART1/496-12.jpg |title=496-12.jpg |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1980s || || Career || At some point during his teens, Terry "bagged groceries and taped drywall and worked in a deli".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170121.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 1970 || {{dts|January 4}} || || Terry is baptized at St. Leonard's Catholic Church in [[wikipedia:Muskego, Wisconsin|Muskego, Wisconsin]].<ref name="cert">{{cite web |url=http://templeos.org/Family3_86-99/PART1/496-12.jpg |title=496-12.jpg |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1987 || || Personal || Terry apparently sees [[wikipedia:Heart (band)|Heart]] in concert.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017March/TAD170314.html |title=The Temple Operating System |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |quote=My older sisters liked Heart. I saw Heart in concert in like 1987.}}</ref>
 
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| 1980s || || || At some point during his teens, Terry "bagged groceries and taped drywall and worked in a deli".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170121.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1988 || {{dts|May 15}} || Personal || Terry receives his [[wikipedia:Confirmation in the Catholic Church|Sacrament of Confirmation]] at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in [[wikipedia:Goodyear, Arizona|Goodyear, Arizona]].<ref name="cert" />
 
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| 1987 || || || Terry apparently sees [[wikipedia:Heart (band)|Heart]] in concert.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017March/TAD170314.html |title=The Temple Operating System |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |quote=My older sisters liked Heart. I saw Heart in concert in like 1987.}}</ref>
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| 1988 || || Personal || Terry claims he cheated on two problems on the SAT by "talking in the hall during the break".<ref name="sat">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727011537/http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2016April/TAD160416.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 1988 || {{dts|May 15}} || || Terry receives his [[wikipedia:Confirmation in the Catholic Church|Sacrament of Confirmation]] at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in [[wikipedia:Goodyear, Arizona|Goodyear, Arizona]].<ref name="cert" />
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| 1988 || fall || Career || Terry begins college at [[wikipedia:Arizona State University|Arizona State University]].<ref name="transcript" />
 
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| 1988 || || || Terry claims he cheated on two problems on the SAT by "talking in the hall during the break".<ref name="sat">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727011537/http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2016April/TAD160416.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 1990–1996 || || Personal || Terry claims he "was as atheist as they came" during this period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170123.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 1988 || fall || || Terry begins college at [[wikipedia:Arizona State University|Arizona State University]].<ref name="transcript" />
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| 1990–1996 || || Career || Terry works at Ticketmaster.<ref name="sanders" /> He claims he was "basically, an intern" (in the beginning?).<ref name="t_os_history">{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/History.html |title=TempleOS History |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref> He works as a software, hardware, and mechanical engineer.<ref name="tad">{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/TAD.html |title=Terry A. Davis |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 1990–1996 || || || Terry claims he "was as atheist as they came" during this period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170123.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
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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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| 1990–1996 || || || Terry works at Ticketmaster.<ref name="sanders" /> He claims he was "basically, an intern" (in the beginning?).<ref name="t_os_history">{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/History.html |title=TempleOS History |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref> He works as a software, hardware, and mechanical engineer.<ref name="tad">{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/TAD.html |title=Terry A. Davis |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</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>
 
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| 1991 || || || 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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| 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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| 1991 || fall || || 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>
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| 1992 || {{dts|December}} || Career || Terry graduates from Arizona State University.<ref name="sanders">{{cite web |url=http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/ |publisher=TechRepublic |title=TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |author=James Sanders |date=January 20, 2014}}</ref> After graduation Terry stays in [[wikipedia:Tempe, Arizona|Tempe, Arizona]] to continue working at Ticketmaster.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
 
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| 1992 || {{dts|December 18}} || || Terry receives his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering major) from Arizona State University.<ref name="transcript" />
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| 1994 || {{dts|December 16}} || Career || Terry earns his master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.<ref name="gods_lonely">{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-programmer |publisher=Motherboard |author=Jesse Hicks |date=November 25, 2014 |title=God's Lonely Programmer |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="transcript" />
 
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| 1992 || {{dts|December}} || || Terry graduates from Arizona State University.<ref name="sanders">{{cite web |url=http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/ |publisher=TechRepublic |title=TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |author=James Sanders |date=January 20, 2014}}</ref> After graduation Terry stays in [[wikipedia:Tempe, Arizona|Tempe, Arizona]] to continue working at Ticketmaster.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
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| 1993 (approximate) || || Personal || Terry gets a [[wikipedia:Intel 80486|486]].<ref name="t_os_history" /> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/StdTempleOSPC.html |title=The Standard TempleOS PC |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170118.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 1994 || {{dts|December 16}} || || Terry earns his master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.<ref name="gods_lonely">{{cite web |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-programmer |publisher=Motherboard |author=Jesse Hicks |date=November 25, 2014 |title=God's Lonely Programmer |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="transcript" />
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| 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.).<ref name="tad" />
 
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| 1993 (approximate) || || || Terry gets a [[wikipedia:Intel 80486|486]].<ref name="t_os_history" /> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/StdTempleOSPC.html |title=The Standard TempleOS PC |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Web/TAD/BlogDir/2017January/TAD170118.html |title=Terry Davis' Blog |accessdate=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 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 [[wikipedia:Marfa, Texas|Marfa, Texas]].<ref name="gods_lonely" />
 
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| 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.).<ref name="tad" />
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| 1996 || {{dts|July}} || Personal || Terry's mental state calms and he returns to Arizona.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
 
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| 1996 || middle of the year || || Terry "started seeing people following [him] around in suits and stuff". He leaves Arizona in his car and ends up in [[wikipedia:Marfa, Texas|Marfa, Texas]].<ref name="gods_lonely" />
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| 1996–2003 || || Personal || Terry apparently has a manic episode every six months during this period.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
 
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| 1996 || {{dts|July}} || || Terry's mental state calms and he returns to Arizona.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
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| 1997–1999 || || Career || Terry works for Xytec Corp.<ref name="tad" /> (The sperm bank?)
 
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| 1996–2003 || || || Terry apparently has a manic episode every six months during this period.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
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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.
 
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| 1997–1999 || || || Terry works for Xytec Corp.<ref name="tad" /> (The sperm bank?)
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| 2000–2001 || || Career || Terry writes SimStructure, a physics simulation software (?), for H.A.R.E., his company.<ref name="tad" />
 
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| 1999 || {{dts|September 9}} || || 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.
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| 2001–2002 || || Career || Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies.<ref name="tad" />
 
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| 2000–2001 || || || Terry writes SimStructure for H.A.R.E., his company.<ref name="tad" />
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| 2003 || {{dts|August 7}}{{snd}}{{dts|October 15}} || Online activity || Sometime during this period, Terry uploads a huge rambling document on the H.A.R.E. website.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031015070500/http://www.tdavis.hare.com/ |title=New Page 1 |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2001–2002 || || || Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies.<ref name="tad" />
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| 2003 || || TempleOS development || Terry begins working on TempleOS around this time.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
 
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| 2003 || || || Terry begins working on TempleOS around this time.<ref name="gods_lonely" />
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| 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 || || || 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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| 2007 || || Personal || Terry gets a 64-bit CPU.<ref name="t_os_history" />
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|November 29}} || Online activity || Terry creates the losethos account on [[wikipedia:Hacker News|Hacker News]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos |title=Profile: losethos |publisher=Hacker News |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |quote=created: 3028 days ago}}</ref>
 
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| 2008 || {{dts|November 29}} || || Terry creates the losethos account on [[wikipedia:Hacker News|Hacker News]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos |title=Profile: losethos |publisher=Hacker News |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |quote=created: 3028 days ago}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|September 2010}} || Online activity || Terry joins Twitter as losethos.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/fGEdX |publisher=archive.fo |title=Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter |date=July 8, 2015 |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|September 2010}} || || Terry joins Twitter as losethos.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/fGEdX |publisher=archive.fo |title=Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter |date=July 8, 2015 |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
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| 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|July 2}} || || 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 |title=User Terrence Andrew Davis |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2011 || {{dts|December 10}} || || Terry joins [[wikipedia:Stack Overflow|Stack Overflow]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stackoverflow.com/users/1091067/terrence-andrew-davis |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 |title=Don't be STUPID: GRASP SOLID! |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 27, 2011}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|January 12}} || || 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>
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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>
 
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| 2012 || {{dts|August 29}} || || 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 |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|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 |title=An Operating System for Songs from God. |accessdate=March 17, 2017 |date=August 29, 2012 |publisher=MetaFilter}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|March}} || || Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/fZG6o |publisher=archive.fo |title=Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter |date=November 3, 2016 |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|March}} || Online activity || Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/fZG6o |publisher=archive.fo |title=Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter |date=November 3, 2016 |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|October 11}} || || Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slashdot.org/submission/3040627/templeos-64-bit-pc-operating-system |title=TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System |website=Slashdot |date=October 11, 2013 |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|October 11}} || Online activity || Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slashdot.org/submission/3040627/templeos-64-bit-pc-operating-system |title=TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System |website=Slashdot |date=October 11, 2013 |accessdate=March 18, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|December 26}} || || Terry answers a question on [[wikipedia:Quora|Quora]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-geek-in-a-prison/answer/Terrence-Andrew-Davis |title=Terrence Andrew Davis's answer to What is it like to be a geek in a prison? |publisher=Quora |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |author=Terrence Andrew Davis |date=December 26, 2013}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|December 26}} || Online activity || Terry answers a question on [[wikipedia:Quora|Quora]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-geek-in-a-prison/answer/Terrence-Andrew-Davis |title=Terrence Andrew Davis's answer to What is it like to be a geek in a prison? |publisher=Quora |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |author=Terrence Andrew Davis |date=December 26, 2013}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || {{dts|August 31}} || || Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theisozone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=46926 |title=NewBe TempleOS |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |website=The Iso Zone Forums |date=August 31, 2014}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|August 31}} || Online activity || Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theisozone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=46926 |title=NewBe TempleOS |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |website=The Iso Zone Forums |date=August 31, 2014}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8CxWZe6zI |title=Terry A Davis Live Stream |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8CxWZe6zI |title=Terry A Davis Live Stream |accessdate=March 15, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|May 16}} || || Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Family3_86-99/ |title=Index of /Family3_86-99 |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |quote=Last Modified 16-May-2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|May 16}} || Personal || Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeos.org/Family3_86-99/ |title=Index of /Family3_86-99 |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |quote=Last Modified 16-May-2016}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|December 1}}? || || Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/101002500/ |title=/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101002500 |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/5fv0qz/looks_like_twitter_shut_down_terrys_account/ |publisher=reddit |title=Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account r/TempleOS_Official |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/101214983/ |title=/pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Thread #101214983 |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 2, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/57821780 |title=/g/ - Technology (Full Images) |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 3, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|December 1}}? || Online activity || Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/101002500/ |title=/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101002500 |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/5fv0qz/looks_like_twitter_shut_down_terrys_account/ |publisher=reddit |title=Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account - r/TempleOS_Official |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/101214983/ |title=/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101214983 |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 2, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/57821780 |title=/g/ - Technology (Full Images) |accessdate=March 18, 2017 |date=December 3, 2016}}</ref>
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}}? || || /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}}? || Online activity || /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}}? || || Terry announces that he has killed a bird.
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}}? || Personal || Terry announces that he has killed a bird.
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 15}} || || Terry's YouTube account is suspended for 90 days.
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 15}} || Online activity || Terry's YouTube account is suspended for 90 days.
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 16}} || || 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>
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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>
 
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Revision as of 15:53, 18 March 2017

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

Big picture

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.

Full timeline

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]
1991 Personal Terry apparently has a girlfriend around this time.[12]
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."[13]
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 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."[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 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] (The sperm bank?)
1999 September 9 Personal Terry allegedly runs over a CIA agent with his car.[16][7] This episode is often repeated.
2000–2001 Career Terry writes SimStructure, a physics simulation software (?), for H.A.R.E., his company.[11]
2001–2002 Career Terry works as the head software/electrical engineer for Graphic Technologies.[11]
2003 August 7 – October 15 Online activity Sometime during this period, Terry uploads a huge rambling document on the H.A.R.E. website.[17]
2003 TempleOS development Terry begins working on TempleOS around this time.[2]
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".[18][19]
2007 Personal Terry gets a 64-bit CPU.[10]
2008 November 29 Online activity Terry creates the losethos account on Hacker News.[20]
2010 September 2010 Online activity Terry joins Twitter as losethos.[21]
2011 July 2 Online activity Terry's first post on Facebook (checked as of March 17, 2017) is from this day.[22]
2011 December 10 Online activity Terry joins Stack Overflow.[23]
2012 January 5 Online activity Terry begins commenting using Disqus on various blogs around this day.[24]
2012 January 12 Online activity Terry writes his first answer on Stack Overflow.[25]
2012 August 29 Online activity Someone shares LoseThos on MetaFilter. Terry ends up in the thread and comments a bunch as the user "losethos".[26]
2013 March Online activity Terry joins Twitter as TempleOS.[27]
2013 October 11 Online activity Terry submits TempleOS to Slashdot.[28]
2013 December 26 Online activity Terry answers a question on Quora for the first time.[29]
2014 August 31 Online activity Terry posts on The Iso Zone Forums advertising TempleOS.[30]
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.[31]
2016 May 16 Personal Terry uploads a lot of family photos to his website.[32]
2016 December 1? Online activity Terry's Twitter account, TempleOS, is suspended.[33][34][35][36]
2017 March? Online activity /g/ discovers Terry's family photos.
2017 March? Personal Terry announces that he has killed a bird.
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.[37]

External links

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. "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. "New Page 1". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  18. "Terry Davis' Blog". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  19. "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. 
  20. "Profile: losethos". Hacker News. Retrieved March 16, 2017. created: 3028 days ago 
  21. "Terry A. Davis (@losethos) - Twitter". archive.fo. July 8, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  22. "Terrence Andrew Davis commented on ThinkProgress.". July 2, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  23. "User Terrence Andrew Davis". Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  24. "Don't be STUPID: GRASP SOLID!". December 27, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  25. Terrence Andrew Davis (January 12, 2012). "Answer to Moving decimal places over in a double". Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  26. "An Operating System for Songs from God.". MetaFilter. August 29, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2017. 
  27. "Terry A. Davis (@TempleOS) - Twitter". archive.fo. November 3, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017. 
  28. "TempleOS: 64-Bit PC Operating System". Slashdot. October 11, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  29. 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. 
  30. "NewBe TempleOS". The Iso Zone Forums. August 31, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  31. "Terry A Davis Live Stream". Retrieved March 15, 2017. 
  32. "Index of /Family3_86-99". Retrieved March 16, 2017. Last Modified 16-May-2016 
  33. "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101002500". December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  34. "Looks like Twitter shut down Terry's account - r/TempleOS_Official". reddit. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  35. "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect - Thread #101214983". December 2, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  36. "/g/ - Technology (Full Images)". December 3, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2017. 
  37. "TempleOS: Update on Live Stream Status". Retrieved March 17, 2017.