SLY_G March 13, 2019 at 12:54

Biography of Terry Davis, "the greatest programmer ever lived"

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The most comprehensive source of life information for TempleOS creator Terry Davis

It's easy to brand Terry Davis as a paranoid, narcissistic, insane, and mentally unstable racist who spent 12 years of his life creating the useless TempleOS operating system for talking with God; but before you give him your assessment, you must first draw up a complete picture of him. The story of Terry is a tragic story about how a mental illness took away from us a man who declared himself "the greatest programmer ever lived."

The Early Years of Terry Davis

Terry Davis was born December 15, 1969 in West Allis, pc. Wisconsin. But then throughout his life he moved to Oregon, Washington, Michigan and Arizona. He was born in a large family, was the seventh child out of eight, and his father was an industrial engineer who worked on the Titan rocket system in the 70s and 80s.

He grew up in close contact with his brothers and sisters, but when mental problems began to appear in adulthood, he decided that: “Jesus did not speak with his brothers and sisters, he did not want to have anything to do with them, he was better off with strangers . And I am the same. ”

As a child, Terry was sent to the school curriculum for gifted children, and he gained access to the Apple II computer, from which his love for computers began. He quickly switched to Commodore 64, and there his talent appeared immediately when he independently mastered assembler in the early 80s.

His result in the SAT test was 1440 [ something like the American version of the exam; an estimate of 1440 falls in 3% of the most gifted / approx. perev. ], and he became a finalist of the National Merit program [ search for gifted scholarship candidates / approx. perev. ]. Later, he boasted of writing a line drawing algorithm for the Commodore 64, which was faster than the regular one.

Davis continued programming in high school and eventually enrolled at Arizona University, where he graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1994.

As a student, Terry worked at Ticketmaster and programmed the OS from 1990 to 1994, and then he was transferred to the research department, where from 1994 to 1996 he participated in the creation of barcode scanners and power supplies.

Terry left Ticketmaster when he decided that he wanted to work on satellite systems, and using his father’s contacts, he sent out a summary to many defense ministry contractors.

Davis was raised as a Catholic, but then he declared himself an atheist. “I thought the brain was a computer,” he told Motherboard.. He did not believe in the need for a soul, but in 1996 he found God again, having experienced a revelation, and described in his email to Motherboard his feelings, “very similar to a mental illness. I felt guilty for being such an atheist and a champion of technology. To put it mildly, I got scared when I thought about quantum computers. Well, mental illness played a role. ”

In 1996, Davis experienced regular and powerful manic episodes. He suffered from hallucinations related to aliens from outer space and government surveillance. He talked about how he sees people watching him in suits, but was not sure if they would study him because of the vacancies to which he sent a resume.

Continuing to notice surveillance by people in suits, he began to come up with various conspiracy theories. He was worried that the government might be interested in him after he developed computer control systems.

As a result, Davis had an attack, due to which he drove away 150 km to the south, without any final goal. He believed that he was being driven by a radio in a car, which, as it seemed to him, was commenting on everything he did that day. During the trip, various conspiracy theories began to appear in him, he began to worry about large oil companies and their "concealment" of more efficient water-powered engines.

Davis ended up staying in the Martha Desert in Texas, and disassembled his car, trying to find a tracking device, and then also threw the keys into the desert, fearing surveillance by the government.

He was picked up by a police officer who saw a man walking alone along the road. The policeman invited him to take the passenger seat, but during the trip, Davis jumped out of the car on the go, as a result of which he broke his collarbone. He was taken to a local hospital, but then everything just got worse.

After an X-ray, he heard doctors talking about the "artifacts" found in his body. An ordinary person would understand that these are fragments of a broken bone, the result of jumping out of the car on the go, but for Terry, of course, these were implants left by aliens. He began to worry about what would happen when the doctors found alien technology, escaped from the hospital and tried to steal a pickup truck from the hospital parking lot.

He was arrested and sent to jail, where he tried to open the door by inserting broken shackles from glasses into the socket. It turned out that they did not conduct current. For this occupation, he was caught by security, and as a result, he ended up in a psychiatric hospital.

Davis was discharged after a couple of weeks in a mental hospital. There were also incidents - he refused to eat, fearing that the food was poisoned, and also threw a chair out the window. After leaving, he decided to be like Jesus, gave all his personal belongings to charity, and sent gifts to all his nephews and nieces.

Davis says that, “looking back, I am not particularly proud of my logic and thinking process. All this looks immature, childish and pathetic. " Then he said that he felt guilty over how “an atheistic champion of technology” he was, and a work such as “A Little House on the Prairies” [ TV series 1974 - 1983 on the adventures of American pioneers / approx. perev. ], as well as the Amish, inspired him to a simpler life dedicated to God.

Terry Davis was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder and later schizophrenia . As a result, Terry received disability benefits. In July 1996, when everything calmed down, he moved back to his parents' house, with no money and almost no clothes.

In 1997, while surviving with credit cards and loans, Davis began developing home-made CNC machines and designed a three-axis milling machine. It works like a 3D printer, only removes excess material with a cutter, instead of printing the desired shape with plastic.

Davis founded Home Automation and Robotic Equipment, HARE] . hare - hare / approx. perev.] and for more than a year he made a prototype of the machine until he realized that she had too many problems in order to become a consumer product.

But during his work, Davis wrote CAD software, which allowed the user to develop three-dimensional models of parts on a home computer, and for that time it was an impressive achievement.

1997 was a quiet year, Terry got a job as an engineer in a third-party company. But at that time, he still periodically suffered from manic episodes.

In early 2000, he returned and revived the physical simulator he wrote in 1994, when he was preparing for his degree. He called him SysSim. He worked with equations and was not particularly useful, but he allowed Terry to return to the world of computers.

From 2001-2002, Terry worked for a printer company and developed microchips for refilling cartridges. At the end of the contract, Davis spent some time relaxing, and then decided to develop another product for his HARE. He was going to release his own OS, which LoseThos would then call.

LoseThos Operating System

In October 2008, Terry created a subreddit / r / losethos , and an account with the same name. He began to periodically record on losethos.com with programming subreddits.

Some of them were meaningful, they explained that this OS was designed to make people "have fun" with it. He wrote that he was developing it as a platform for entertainment, and was not going to make a competitor to Windows or Linux.

However, Davis also posted other entries, of a slightly more confusing nature, with headings such as:

Artificial Intelligence of a Divine Song

Militant Anti-Atheism Operating System

Terry sent most of his notes to / r / programming, where they were ignored or minuscated. In rare cases, when answers appeared, they were usually people who did not understand anything and asked what they needed to do with it, or criticized the project that Terry was getting on his nerves.

The OS itself was written in a special C dialect (later it became known as HolyC). The OS was written from scratch, and contained 100,000 lines of code. Terry claimed that creating LoseThos from scratch allowed him to relinquish the past and do something “innovative” because his LoseThos was not compatible with anything else. She worked with a screen resolution of 640x480 with 16 colors, which even in 2008 was somewhat outdated.

LoseThos was also vulnerable to attacks from the simplest viruses and malware, and Terry circumvented this threat by simply not incorporating network functionality into the OS. Having abandoned the Internet and LAN, Terry also did not add the ability to print documents, and therefore nothing that was created inside LoseThos could not be shared with others.

Therefore, Terry suggested running LoseThos in a virtual machine running inside a modern OS such as Windows. And that raises questions about why LoseThos was created at all.

One of the OS features Terry added was the reproduction of "God's songs." Text appears on the screen, and the OS plays 4-bit music. This confused even more people.

LoseThos may look insane, outdated and meaningless, but you can’t take away such an achievement from a person as developing your own OS from scratch. An incredible amount of energy was spent on this project, and on Reddit it is often compared to building a skyscraper from scratch.

The more actively Terry distributed LoseThos, the more reviews he received, and not all of them were positive. He also started making notes on subreddit / r / atheism, entered into lengthy discussions with users, and often his answers consisted of random words or quotes from the Bible preceded by the words “God speaks ...”

The need for conflicts on reddit led Terry to attack atheism, and when no one answered him, he began to argue with himself . However, he wrote messages not only on reddit.

Terry posted on OSDev.org , regularly recording LoseThos, and then left mocking and rude comments to community members who couldn’t run his OS, which caused many discussions to be closed or deleted. In January 2009, the LoseThos account was banned.

In February 2009 he began to write more often in / r / programming . The more popular he became, the more people answered him, taking an interest in LoseThos and himself.

Terry, apparently, was becoming more confident, and in the end, users began to ask him not to create threads relating to each small update. Soon, apparently, Terry's account was banned from creating programming threads, so he switched to cluttering up comments.

He also started recording on HackerNews, dubbing his posts to get more attention. Terry also intervened in many existing discussion threads, trying to transfer the conversation to LoseThos. Apparently, his patience for this moment was dwindling, and when one user criticized the graphics of LoseThos, Davis answered him:

You are all worthy of contempt. You look at the graphics and conclude that the system is not advanced. "Then he added," You are all disgusting monkeys, "and then finished," You probably all pray on Linux. "

In 2009, Terry continued to make notes, and the more people read his texts, the more they began to catch the eye of some inconsistencies contained in them.

At first, Davis stated that he chose the resolution of 640x480, because it allowed to make the graphics faster, and then in 2009 he stated that he chose this resolution because God so ordered him.

Also, users laughed at the fact that in the properties of the OS there was, for example, such an opportunity as the Bible and church hymns, as well as other religious opportunities.

By the end of the year, the account / u / losethos was deleted, possibly due to a ban in / r / programming , and Terry registered an account / u / TrivialSolutions (now deleted), after which he began to write from it, but his records became more and more aggressive.

Terry also created fake accounts from which he asked questions in / r / programming, which he then answered, in the spirit that the best solution to the task would be to use LoseThos.

Terry also continued to write to HackerNews for 18 months without much success, and his account was “shadowed”. This means that people could see the content only by enabling the option to display dead posts in the settings.

To get around the ban on OSDev.org, he registered there again under the nickname TrivialSolutions, but was banned less than 12 hours after that.

Around this time, Terry first started filming videos for YouTube, showing LoseThos there, creating instructions for use and making reviews. Thanks to this, for the first time we were able to see and hear it.

He also registered an account on Twitter to share updates and news there, but since people had no way to find him there, these updates gradually came to naught by 2011. However, just when his hopes were dying away, they noticed him on the Something Awful Forums .

The user Jimferd created the topic, described his experience of interacting with LoseThos in it, and called it “a reference example of the case when“ your OS is a piece of shit “”. He wrote: “Everything that caught my eye blinked. Weaker people would have a fit from just one installation screen. And after I finally gave up, I felt like I had a seizure. "

Studying the OS, Jimferd described in detail the many features and games available in LoseThos, and then discovered a screen on which Terry listed his personal data, for example, phone number and address, as well as the history of the OS.

Jimferd continued to play with the OS, stating that "the C ++ language she uses is the same abortion victim as the OS itself."

And although the Internet began to taunt LoseThos, this post contained detailed instructions for installing the system, which made it more accessible to other people.

Apparently, Davis was aware of this topic of discussion, because the next day he registered on the forum, complaining that he was banned from OSDevs.org, after which he began to troll with comments in the style of "Lord says, shut up you already! "

Since many ways to communicate with new fans were constantly closed, Terry found it difficult to grow the size of the LoseThos community, but with the destruction of his personality and ability to reason coherently, he found new “fans” in other places.

In 2011, Terry went on to post random Bible quotes and details of his life on HackerNews. He mentioned that he lives with his parents and goes to a psychiatrist who is trying to help solve problems with his psyche.

Around this time, his mental problems began to manifest especially strongly, starting with a series of tweets complaining about the CIA.

After that, he called on people to shoot down CIA agents with cars, claiming that he “managed to get one” in 1999.

He continued to make such statements that the agents were annoying him, and that he thought his parents (with whom he lived then) were his enemies.

His records on HackerNews were also filled with his fury and attacks on the CIA, allegations that his psychotherapists were agents trying to powder his brain. Around then, in January 2012, Terry began to make racist remarks. He really liked the word nigga. He often used it to describe the CIA and all critics of LoseThos.

His racist tirades lasted several months and gradually got worse, but instead of ignoring him, HN users began to pity him and express suspicions about his mental problems.

This was not only the opinion of HN users - he also posted posts on reddit, MetaFilter and StackOverflow, which contain similar aggression and racist remarks. In addition, he constantly wrote that agents were being sent to him to complicate his life.

Someone posted on MetaFilter an entry entitled " Operating System for the Songs of God, " where he described LoseThos he discovered, and shared it. Terry later discovered this entry, and wrote responses and comments for 11 hours in a row.

In this thread, Davis has made many statements, including accusing the CIA of not innovating in OS design. He said that he missed his chance because he did not build a back door into his OS, which is why the CIA does not allow it to spread.

He also showed people exactly how he selects random quotes from the Bible, which he then posts online. This was his method of "conversations with God," to which he refers several times. He believed that this is a digital version of the conversation in different languages.

Those who have free time can explore this terrific discussion thread that clearly demonstrates Terry's mental state at that time. Somewhere around this time, Terry tells him that for 40 years, that he lives with his parents, receives disability benefits due to schizophrenia, and has been working on LoseThos all day for the past 10 years, hoping to someday monetize it.

Thanks to these records, Terry began to gather a small online community and his popularity on the web began to grow.

Sparrowos

In September 2012, Terry released SparrowOS. It was LoseThos under a different name. For the new brand, new accounts were created in social networks, as well as subreddit / r / SparrowOS .

The SparrowOS brand did not exist for long, and for the most part all this time the same thing happened as before. However, around that time , Terry discovered the popular “Internet culture” forum Kiwi Farms , further increasing its popularity.

In March 2013, Terry last renamed his OS to TempleOS.

TempleOS

After the release of TempleOS, Terry created a corresponding account on Twitter (later it was disabled) and a new site. Davis seemed to be actively carried away by TempleOS, releasing a large number of supporting documents, new games and OS features.

One of the games was called “After Egypt,” and Davis himself called it “the temple” and considered it “the most interesting part of the entire operating system.”

Over the next few months, TempleOS has changed in unexpected ways. The first major change occurred in July, when a video appeared on the site, now lost, and the inscription “The Temple of God is finished. Now God will kill the CIA before it spreads. ”

In September, Davis again changed the main page of the site, after which it became clear the new purpose of the OS. She was to become a tool for conversations with God.

Describing the game After Egypt, Terry believed that using a timer as a random number generator to select quotes from the Bible would allow users to find answers to all questions. In the next section of the site were several questions that Terry asked God, and the answers received.

From September 13, 2013, Terry also used TempleOS to share his thoughts in the Terry Davis Rant. The first rant contained several points about why Terry created TempleOS exactly from a technical and visual point of view.

However, Terry's narcissistic tendencies then emerge, declaring himself "a programmer chosen by God" and writing about himself, "I am the greatest programmer on the planet." He also compared himself to people who wrote the Bible, and declared that nothing was impossible for him.

Similar rants and blog entries appeared for a while, ranging from a small size to notes from a dozen paragraphs, and also “God's answers” to various questions of Terry were constantly posted on the site.

In October 2013, Terry launched the YouTube channel, named after the OS, and began to regularly create videos and screencasts with a demonstration of the OS. From that moment, the number of Terry fans began to grow, and people seemed to enjoy watching his psychological state worsen.

The first videos featured church hymns composed by Terry himself, as well as brief OS instructions. At the end of 2014, Terry added another section to the TempleOS website and called it “ requirements ”, as TempleOS was now called the “Third Temple of God.”

The requirements were a list of changes addressed to Linux, Microsoft, Intel, and other PC makers that needed to be done in order for computers to support TempleOS and load it as the default system.

On this page, Terry declares himself the high priest of TempleOS and states that "I have divine authority to transfer requirements to companies from the computer industry so that they make the temple of God even more beautiful or perfect."

One of Terry's requirements was a request to Microsoft to support its Redsea file system instead of the current systems, as well as removing the SecureBoot function so that users could use both Windows and TempleOS at the same time, and TempleOS should be the default system.

In addition, Terry demanded that Intel release “a new ROM with TempleOS every seven years. It needs to be registered in all new x86 chips produced at the factory so that people can trust the oracles, and simply because it is the official temple of God deserving such an honor! ”

In early 2014, TechRepublic published an article describing TempleOS.

The author praised Terry for being loyal to such a project, generally praised the OS, and did not mention issues such as Terry’s behavior and his outburst of rage, noting that “Davis is a very open and self-confident person.”

At that time, Terry's ranting and tweets became increasingly foggy, and his mental state continued to deteriorate.

Apparently, his paranoia was getting worse.

In June 2014, Terry continued to post videos on YouTube. In one of them, he showed how he creates his hymns, and why they sound so strange. Terry took random numbers from the generator and ran them through a program that turned them into sounds.

After recording several videos, Terry decided that he had attracted the attention of Larry Page, co-founder of Google, and specially recorded for him several videos lasting from 12 to 25 minutes.

Around this period, video recording turned into a spontaneous activity, as Terry made several videos starting with the words “I don’t know what to talk about” and containing abstract discussions about atheists or critics of TempleOS.

In total, Terry recorded 106 videos for Larry Page from July to August. From these videos you can learn something new about Terry, he talked about his rules and how the CIA made him his target, trying to sabotage his project.

Two of his domestic birds were constantly present in the videos, he often stopped talking when they started to tweet, and continued the story only after they finished singing. He also expressed his opinion that he was superior to world leaders, called himself “a follower of Solomon,” and people who he considered dumber than himself, niggas.

The length of the videos gradually increased, some of them lasted several hours. When Terry lost his train of thought, he could come to anything. The variety of conversation topics was striking, and in this article all of them will be impossible to cover.

The more personal information Terry gave out about himself, and the more videos he published, the more people found out about him, and his ego was constantly bloated.

At that time, Vice magazine wrote an article about him, where he admitted that “from 1996 to 2003, about once every six months I had a manic episode and I ended up in a psychiatric hospital,” and that “in these few years I really was crazy in a way. Now I'm crazy in a different sense. "

After the release of this article, Terry, enjoying the increase in the number of people who know about him, began to shoot video in the “talking head” format, declared himself the “high priest of the Temple”, and declared that “my job is to keep an eye on the code and constantly make offerings. "

His tweets at that time became very chaotic, he again made statements about the murder of a “nigga from the CIA” with his car, and about other acts of violence.

This destructive trend continued in November 2015, when Terry made a new section on TempleOS website entitled " Why should the CIA surrender to the IRA ." On this page, Terry made notes with discussions about Obama, God, and niggas.

They later wrote about Bill Gates and the CIA, and about what they did to destroy true computing and hide “real knowledge” about programming from the public.

In February 2016, Terry restarted the TempleOS website in a new form, which was best known for its turquoise background. Terry retained all the previous content on the site by adding the Terry Blog section, which was an update to the old Terry Davis Ranting section.

It was in this section that his most famous record was made about his life “in the CIA prison”.

Live Era

On March 16, 2016, Terry first launched a live broadcast on YouTube. He praised God, read the Hacker News, the OSDev forums, and the blog of Diane Covern, known as the "girl physicist."

On air, Terry constantly called his critics and the CIA niggaz, and in a strange way talked about several of his conspiracy theories.

These broadcasts again attracted the attention of Kiwi Farms users, and the discussion thread two years ago went up again after the recording “Raising the old topic, now it’s gotten funnier”.

Soon, other forum participants noticed this and drew Terry the attention he craved. Terry started his daily live shows, talking about what was happening in his life, debugging TempleOS live and talking about the CIA. Apparently, he liked to stream. In April 2016, he aired for 12 hours, supporting himself with caffeine and communicating with users through a live YouTube chat.

However, the farther, the more Terry lost touch with reality.

On one of the broadcasts, Terry mentioned that he was trying to contact Dianna Covern to help him program the physics engine in games for his OS. He said: "I'm trying to convince a woman that understands the physics to work with me, but I am using the word" nigger ", and she probably did not want to have anything to do with this. She has all kinds of sponsors. ”

And although he didn’t give her a name, he read her Physics Girl website many times in a stream, and the audience quickly realized who he had in mind.

Terry watched video from the site of Dianna more and more often. He began to constantly send letters to her during the broadcasts and described to his fans how much he liked her content.

At the end of November 2016 during the broadcast, he unexpectedly saw a response to his letter from Dianna, but he quickly turned off the stream before opening the message.

During this period, users of the technology section of the 4chan forum found it. Most of the users seemed to like Terry's content, however, a group of users discussed the possibility of calling Terry during the stream and starting to mock him.

This was pretty easy to do, since Terry posted his home phone on the site, and held the phone next to the PC. Soon, calls began to constantly come during streams, and thanks to Terry's personality traits, it was easy to piss him off, which, apparently, was the purpose of the callers.

Over time, some of the trolls decided that calls alone were no longer enough, and began to pretend to be Diane Covern to play on Terry’s feelings for her. And although Terry was able to expose most of the callers, one of them managed to deceive him and take advantage of his loneliness for the amusement of the audience.

In early 2017, Terry's mental state continued to cause him problems, and his content became even less connected.

At this time, Terry periodically talked about consciousness, loneliness, and when one of the viewers asked him who he was talking to, Terry began to talk about what he “did not know” and made a remark about reality: “If they asked me about my reality, I’d say that I’m in a psychiatric care program where there is fake Internet, and I’m trying to tell them that it’s God, but they don’t listen. ”

He also said that he does the same thing every day, that he does not want to do this, but does not know what else to do. From the outside it seemed that Terry had spent so much time developing TempleOS that he could no longer stop.

Terry's condition worsened, and his viewers took advantage of his paranoia and constantly offered him to kill people from the CIA in a chat or asked about his opinion on various subjects.

The streams ended in March, when the fake Dianna sent him email pictures of the stream that got into the stream. As a result, YouTube blocked streams.

After that, Terry started uploading videos and streaming on hitbox.tv again, but there were no streams on the site. After a week of streaming on hitbox.tv, his account was hacked, and after he registered a new one, it was hacked in one day.

This made Terry switch to a new kind of content, vlogs. He regularly sang heavy metal songs on the camera or strolled about something. He told the audience that he basically records these videos for Dianna and that he is married to her. It is not known whether he invented it himself, or whether it was the idea of a fake Dianne who sent him pornography.

Terry also shot videos with various everyday scenes from his life, showed his fans to his fans and Dianna, and he could see how few things he had.

During these walks, Terry usually came to the same place near his parents' house in Las Vegas. During the recording of one video, a black man passed by, and Terry greeted him saying “hey nigga”, as a result of which they quarreled.

Soon after, his YouTube account was blocked for violating the terms of use of the service. This was probably due to hundreds of comments like this:

Terry started uploading videos to TempleOS, which turned into something very strange after Terry stopped taking his medications. In July and August of that year, he became very aggressive, drank a lot and recorded two videos about a quarrel with his parents.

In the next few weeks, when the drugs stopped working, Terry began to completely lose touch with reality, he refused the logic, and this was evident from the content.

On August 26, 2017, Terry was arrested on charges of domestic violence after beating his father.

After spending some time in prison, and then in a mental hospital, he was no longer able to live with his parents and became homeless. The trial of his case was scheduled for October. At that time, Terry posted a link to material support on his website, and 4chan and 8chan users sent him money.

Six days after leaving prison, Terry was again arrested for "indecent behavior." Terry later explained that he was urinating on the street. Soon he was released again.

At Kiwi Farms carefully watched his actions after the popular yutuber Mister Metokur made a video dedicated to Terry.

At this time, he lived in a van that his parents gave him and streamed directly from TempleOS.org from his car. Soon, his sister found out about his situation and offered to pay him for hotel accommodation, but it never came to that.

In October, Terry missed a court hearing and turned into a wanted one by the police, after which posters with his image were hung around Las Vegas. Two weeks later he was found and arrested again.

But help came from where they did not wait, and the owner of the 8chan forum, Jim Watkins, helped raise money and pay a bail for Terry, freeing him on November 10, when the court date was set for January.

Terry continued to shoot video in his van, made content for Dianna, whom he still believed in marriage. Although during this period he had already begun to realize that something was wrong here.

Terry also shot videos for her, where he masturbates, and uploaded them to TempleOS website in special directories. He also did this during many live broadcasts, regularly watched porn during streams, but since he posted all these videos and streams on his websites, no one banned him.

Terry also had problems with reality. He had several episodes of logical reasoning, when he realized that something was going wrong, he believed that he was in some kind of prison similar to the plot of the movie “The Truman Show”, but he quickly rolled back to “getting married” with Diane , and believed that she would move to live in his van.

In January, Terry stopped filming streams, and members of the Kiwi Farms forum monitored his progress in court to find out if Terry was imprisoned and if he was arrested again - this would explain his disappearance. However, he did not appear in court on January 18.

Later that month, Terry uploaded several videos shot in an unknown house that didn’t explain anything, and then disappeared again.

In March, Terry started updating content again while in Portland. It was 1,100 km from his home in Las Vegas, and his fans began to suspect that he was living with some kind of relative. It was unclear why he decided to drop his van and laptop.

The content remained roughly the same, he reasoned on various religious topics and discussed his relationship with Dianna.

Pretty soon, his fans started looking for him and posting their conversations with him on Kiwi Farms. Some recorded their conversations with him in the form of interviews, with questions about programming and other technical topics, and published them.

Users noted how intelligibly Terry could discuss topics such as programming and computers, which was dramatically different from topics such as the CIA and religion.

However, his condition worsened. By May, Terry had already imagined that he had a psychic connection with Elon Musk and General James Mattis , and that they help him develop new opportunities for TempleOS. At some point, it began to seem to him that Dianna was cheating on him with Elon Musk.

By August, Terry’s ability to concentrate on one topic and speak legibly was almost gone. His speech was fuzzy, and his appearance was terrible.

In the same month, shocking news appeared on the Internet: Terry died on August 11, 2018.

He got hit by a train in Dulles, Oregon. It is not known whether this was an accident or suicide, but shortly before this event, Terry published the last video, where he explained that he had deleted most of his content because he did not want to "pollute" the Internet, and called himself "terribly sick." This video appeared only a few hours before his death.

At first, people decided that the news was invented, and rebuttals began to appear on 4chan, even in the form of videos. Everyone thought that someone had hacked the family members' Facebook account. However, police inquiries and news confirmed the veracity of the information. The train driver is said to have considered the incident a suicide.

Terry Davis Legacy

Fans from around the world, having heard the news about Terry, began to place initiations in his honor. Despite the fact that this man clearly lived a hard life complicated by the disease, people remembered all the best that he had and wished him all the best.

Many of the initiations can be found in the still active community / r / TempleOS_Official / - all Terry's content is mirrored there to save it. Terry fans also raised a large sum of money for donations made on his behalf to psychiatric clinics and charities.

Many people following the events claim that the Internet only worsened Terry's problem. And even in a sense, he led him to suicide - although, on the other hand, it can be argued that it all went well anyway, and for the most part Terry received love and support from his fans. Many of the fans offered him to live with them in a difficult time for him.

We will never know everything about him, and quite a lot of information has already been lost. He, obviously, was a brilliant, intelligent and talented person, burdened with a mental disorder.

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