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.

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. 
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