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Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
Mysterious emails dating from 1970 have been turning up in baffled iPhone users' inboxes.

The ghostly communications have no subject, sender or contents either.

Confused smartphone users have been taking to social media to ask if these mysterious messages could be damaging.

Their existence, however, appears to be down to an iPhone glitch, rather than anything more malicious.

The glitch appears to affect users of email apps on the iOS operating system that the iPhone and iPad run on, and sees them receive empty messages dated January 1, 1970.

It is not linked to the bug that encouraged people to set their device’s date to January 1, 1970 , and then break the phone beyond repair, the Telegraph reported. MORE: [link to www.mirror.co.uk]
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
Anyone here get one of these? I have an iPhone and haven't...
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My Android phone used to restart itself frequently, then start with the date of January 1st, 1970. I looked it up...I think it has something to do with the official "beginning of time" when it comes to computers.
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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.

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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.
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Thread: internet documents from 1963
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
Ive seen some news articles with stories from 3 days ago. The event was a week or so ago. Comments are from a year ago.
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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.
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Thread: internet documents from 1963
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I was living at the time and working in the communication industry. There was no internet.


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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.
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Thread: internet documents from 1963
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13876338

I was living at the time and working in the communication industry. There was no internet.


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You are wrong, there was internet, but it was used within military intelligence organization.
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I read this thread years ago wtf?
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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.

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Thread: Mysterious email sent from 1969 plagues some iPhone 4 users. WTF???
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I sent myself an email from the future once - no subject or message, just from me and to me from a future date. Was very weird.
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03/07/2016 11:45 PM
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Has that John Titor been messing about,i heard he went back for a IBM Computer made in the 70s.
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Oh lawdy, stop the presses. Bro first cell phone call wasn't even until 73...
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The Unix timestamp is a computer date that begins in 1969. That is the default value for a date value if it is not set. Thus, when these emails are sent with no information, it's obvious it would be from that time. It's called the Unix epoch, Google it.
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[link to www.wired.com]

People were manually setting their date back.
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
Mysterious emails dating from 1970 have been turning up in baffled iPhone users' inboxes.

The ghostly communications have no subject, sender or contents either.

Confused smartphone users have been taking to social media to ask if these mysterious messages could be damaging.

Their existence, however, appears to be down to an iPhone glitch, rather than anything more malicious.

The glitch appears to affect users of email apps on the iOS operating system that the iPhone and iPad run on, and sees them receive empty messages dated January 1, 1970.

It is not linked to the bug that encouraged people to set their device’s date to January 1, 1970 , and then break the phone beyond repair, the Telegraph reported. MORE: [link to www.mirror.co.uk]
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Maybe time travelers, sending messages to us about ww3 About to happen, they went back to 1970,hoping to figure away to stop some events that led up to ww3 soon to come.

The reason the message is empty is because it gets scrambled and deleted before it actually reaches the today's time. Why? Because they have built a portable cell tower which is not perfect in the Time they are in 1970, they do not realize right now that the messages are not reaching today's time. They will not figure this out for a while, someone will come back and try to relieve a message, it won't be there so in 1972 they will correct the problem.

Which will be out 2018. So keep eyes open
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This conspiracy is juicy!!!

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I sent myself an email from the future once - no subject or message, just from me and to me from a future date. Was very weird.
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Lmao....I did too, a text message that said it was from 2037. For real. I figured it was a glirch and my phone is crazy from talking shit on the govt all the time anyway.
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
THE EARLIEST EMAILS DATE TO THE 1960'S AND EARLY 70'S AS PART Of A DoD Project.

The inventor just died at age 74.
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It's called the Unix Timestamp, which started at 0 from the start of 1970. It's obviously a glitch, but you can come up with what ever delusional theories you guys typically contrive.

Carry on.
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the lag was real back then
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Do not buy iPhones.

"Siri"
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
THE EARLIEST EMAILS DATE TO THE 1960'S AND EARLY 70'S AS PART Of A DoD Project.

The inventor just died at age 74.
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My old neighbor worked as a higher up for Ford and others. Age 70. He was heavy into computers way back in college. He did say there were message boards & they played a game called "Hunt the wompuss" (not sure of that spelling) on a computer.
He seemed to sense lots of doom last time we spoke in 2015.
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Re: Glitch in the matrix? iPhone users baffled by emails sent from 1970...
From what I know, The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar.
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It's called the Unix Timestamp, which started at 0 from the start of 1970. It's obviously a glitch, but you can come up with what ever delusional theories you guys typically contrive.

Carry on.
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dude

i got my first iphone in 63 when livers were made out of propylene.

which reality are yu living in
Grove

And this is why we can't have nice things.
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There was no internet in 1970. There were a few computers around in the government and maybe business but no internet.
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13876338

I was living at the time and working in the communication industry. There was no internet.


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From the article:

"Of course there was email until Ray Tomlinson, who died yesterday, he developed an application that allowed messages to be sent back and forth between computers in 1971.

He used @ to separate the user name from the host name."
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Yes, time travelers from the 1970s. Oh Fuhk.

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iPhones are the devil. For real.
And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree than perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die.





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