Year 2000. Month: September. Day: Eleventh Day, Monday.

It was the year of the Dot Com Boom. With the new amazing innovation that was the World Wide Web, the internet was gaining hundreds and hundreds of more pages with every second that passed, people hurrying and paying money in hopes that their contribution would allow them to get rich without raising a single finger.

Most of them were doomed to go bankrupt. Within a few years, these would fade away in time as service providers would fail to do as promised - the money promised by the being that was the Internet a cruel lie.

But among them was a single page. It was alone in its simplicity - at this point, even though the web lacked the garish accessories like the ads and videos that would in time be developed, it went against the common notion of using blaring fonts and colors, leaving behind simple unformatted text across a white free expanse of a webpage.

This text was seemingly simple, almost unimportant among the thousands of pages that used eyecatches and blinking lights. Maybe that was why it went so unnoticed at the time - only a few would be bored enough to take the time to read through the simple message with nary a button nor textbox to interact with.

Hello, I'm the Time Traveler, and this is my forecast for the coming three years.

Have a nice disaster!

But when they read it, soon they found themselves scrolling down, almost interested at the strange words that they found. For who were men and women to not be intrigued by such a strange message? It was almost like stopping in the middle of a walk to watch a car crash across the street - nobody wanted to be part of a tragedy, but the promise of it compelled their attention the same.

["A time traveler?"] People started to think. ["What is this? I want to know more."]

And so, they read the coming entries.

Hey, Cole! Be careful for bombs, alright? You might just sink down under.

["An inside joke?"] People wondered confusedly for a moment. ["Oh, there's more to read."]

Two towers, one horrible disaster! Oh, the humanity.

More confusion, but they still continued on reading.

And how the ground shakes! How horrible for India. I hope they don't mind. Score: 7.7!

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Still undecipherable. More to read still.

War continues all over the world, and we're all out of money over at Argentina!

What are we going to do now?

This 'time traveler' was getting more frustrating the more they read. Was he ever going to say anything worthwhile?

And yeah, space. It's a nice place. Hope you get back home safely.

And just like that, their scrolling stopped. Nothing more to read, nothing else to be seen.

For a minute, they wondered. They tried to understand what they had just read. But after a while of thinking and nothing making sense, the few that read the page the very first time it came out shook their heads and put the strange nonsense they had just read aside in favor of their lives.

After all, now that there was nothing else to read, the magic was gone. They lost interest - it was as simple as that.

Some immediately went back to whatever work they were doing at the time. Some, chose to go over to other websites, hoping to stave off some of the disappointment they had from the page.

Others... well, they had some spare post-its on hand. For a whim, they wrote what they just read and placed it over their large cathode ray monitors, to be ignored in time amongst others.

And when the USS Cole sank after a suicide bombing, well... a few remembered the page, but ultimately banished the thought from their minds. After all, 'Cole' was a rather common name. Surely it was a coincidence, they reasoned to themselves quietly.

There was no way time travel was real, right?

Thus, the page faded into obscurity...

Year 2001. Month: September. Day: Eleventh Day, Tuesday.

Hey, everyone! It's horrible out today. Did you guys listen to my warning carefully?

...and then, exactly one year after the page was created, the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened.

That was the beginning of a domino effect that affected the entire world.