A theory of everything from the early internet turns into a tragedy as the audience interacts with its author in universities, on television shows and online. This is the story of Gene Ray, the "wisest human" and his disciple Richard Janczarski, who suffered terribly for his interest in the Time Cube theory.
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Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 131 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the TimeCube episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
QAnon isn't the first, nor will it be the last conspiracy theory of everything.
In 1997, a man named Gene Ray launched a website he called TimeCube, laying out his jumbled and ambitious vision.
The result?
Dozens of listeners writing in to make sure we podcast about their precious cube.
Now, usually when we do something like this, Jake has long called dibs.
But this time, a new challenger appeared.
Travis View, who eagerly asked to be the Time Cube guy.
This may be hard to believe, but as the internet started to mature about two decades ago, it was fairly difficult to find the deranged thoughts of Krinks.
The 90s and early 2000s were the days before social media as we know it today.
The most popular early forums, such as newsgroups and bulletin board services, were tightly moderated.
So if someone started posting some incoherent nonsense, they were often greeted with a banhammer.
He misses those days so bad.
It's almost like a cowboy looking back on the West and being like, the West is gone now.
Used to be.
Used to be, you know, some 19-year-old nerd would just ban you because they found you irritating and no one would cry, censorship or anything like that.
They moved on with their life.
Back then, if you wanted to publish your unfiltered thoughts online about forbidden science or whatever, you needed to construct your own website, which required a small amount of technical knowledge and personal stability.
That was enough to prevent most cranks from publishing their brain-scrambling ideas.
But that barrier wasn't enough to stop a man named Otis Eugene Ray, the inventor of the Time Cube principle.
Gene Ray, as he was better known online, was an elderly former electrician from Georgia who claimed he had been working on this theory for decades.
Time Cube was a baffling theory of everything that gained notoriety right before the Web 2.0 era.
At one point, it was synonymous with incomprehensible rambling and conspiracy theorizing, much in the same way that QAnon is today.
And it all started with a single, text-heavy website.
Sometime in 1997, Gene Ray published the first iteration of TimeCube.com.
What that very first webpage looked like may be lost to history forever.
However, the earliest version of the site was preserved by the Web Archive, and it dates back to June of 1998.
By the way, this entire episode and much of internet history is only possible thanks to the Web Archive.
I think I might donate to that site after this because it really is a miracle of an organization.
The header for TimeCube.com back in 98 states in all caps and blue text, Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous Forte TimeCube.
Next to these words is an animated gif of a spinning cube labeled Day.
That gif also included four arrows to indicate the direction of the spin.
Below that were these words in red letters.
Earth has four simultaneous days with only one rotation.
Losing three days in each Earth rotation has retarded your mentality to stupid and an education of evil.
You do not have the mind or education to envision nature's time cube.
Pretty aggressive, immediately.
It is.
The entire site was like a combination of advocating the theory, which is not comprehensible.
I don't even understand it, even after studying it for many days.
But it also, combined with that, was constantly insulting the reader for their inability to understand.
Now the words below that didn't really clear anything up.
It's in all caps, and it reads... THREE EQUATOR.
FOUR CORNER EARTH.
TIME ROTATES NINETY-SIX HOURS AS A SIMULTANEOUS FOUR-DAY CUBE.
YOU WERE TAUGHT THAT THE EARTH HAS ONLY ONE EQUATOR, AS IF THE EARTH WAS FLAT.
YOU WERE TAUGHT IGNORANCE.
CREATION HAS TWO SEX PULLS AND FOUR CORNER RACES OF HUMANS.
GOD IS CORNERED AS A QUEER.
JEAN RAY.
CUBIC.
Below that, there's even more text that goes on to really explain nothing.
If Earth stood still, it would have a midday, midnight, sunup, and sundown as four corners.
Each rotation of Earth has four middays, four midnights, four sunups, and four sundowns.
The 16 space times demonstrates cube proof of four full days simultaneously on Earth within one rotation.
The academia created one day Greenwich time is bastardly queer and dooms future youth and nature to a hell.
Ignorance of four-day harmonic cubic nature indicts humans as unfit to live on Earth.
Gene Ray.
Cubic.
Below that, Gene Ray issues a challenge to anyone who disputes the Time Cube.
I will give $1,000 to any person who can disprove four days in each Earth rotation.
It's a pity that religious and academic word is a crime against nature and enslaves children.
Until word is cornered, all math is fiction.
At the bottom of the page, Gene Ray seems to explain why he believes that Greenwich Mean Time doesn't exist.
Greenwich Time is a lie.
Your midday is someone else's midnight, someone else's sundown, and even someone else's sunup.
Do you know that time is a simultaneous four-corner square that rotates to a four-day time cube within one to twenty-four hour rotation of Earth?
You are educated stupid and unable to know nature's four-day time cube.
You can't get through a single sentence without calling someone the R-word, or stupid, or queer.
It's incredible.
Yeah, this was accompanied by a bunch of diagrams, but again, that really failed to clear anything up, at least for me.
Below that, there are three hyperlinks, one of which leads to a separate website called AboveGod.com, which Gene Ray had also created.
AboveGod.com said this, Christianity is poison forced upon children.
Nature's harmonic Time Cube creation reigns supreme.
Welcome to the site where Time Cube is above God.
God is ignorance.
Educators are stupid.
In one rotation of Earth there are 24 hours of midnight, 24 hours of midday, 24 hours of sun up, 24 hours of sun down.
of midday, 24 hours of sun up, 24 hours of sun down. Human God can see only one quarter of each."
What's kind of fascinating about this is that he both hates religion it seems and science.
Like, he... Yeah, right?
This is literally, it says, God is ignorance, educators are stupid.
And that's very uncommon to punch in both directions at once, because who are you left with?
You're left with Gene Ray, the wisest man on earth.
Yeah, you're left with a time cube.
God on the left, educators on the right, stuck in the middle with Gene.
Timecube.com featured a public visitor counter, which was typical of early websites.
The earliest iteration of the site shows only 222 hits a year after the site was created, so at first it was getting less than a single visitor a year.
However, in 1999, the site was starting to be discovered, and it boasted of over 60,000 hits in the first 10 months of that year.
By March of 2000, the website had over 290,000 visits.
Possibly in response to the site's growing popularity, Gene Ray began adding more content to the page during these years, such as this.
Your own people will kill you to prevent this forbidden truth cube from ever being known.
Socrates was killed to hide truth from public.
One Corner God is a fraud.
Are you afraid to know?
All educated are stupid from brainwashing and indoctrination.
Pedants cannot comprehend that there are four simultaneous years within a single rotation of Earth about the Sun.
Each season has its own separate year.
Life is a crapshoot with a femininity cube and a masculinity cube.
Mostly, whenever he added updates, he just took all the content he already had and just added a new, like, center-aligned section to it.
So the page just grew bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger over the years.
In 2000, he also added a new page to the site called, Are You Jewish?
Now that I've cleared up that stuff, are you a fucking Jew?
Let's get to the bottom of this.
So apparently he was, it seems like he was, um, he was responding to a frequently asked question.
Oh, okay, yeah.
It's not like a test you have to pass to read his page.
No, no.
If you're Jewish, I don't want you looking at these holy, this holy cube concept.
It might make you too powerful since it matches directly, I believe, with your Star of David.
No, no, it sounds like, yeah, it sounds like, for some reason it wasn't called, Am I Jewish?
But no, it sounds like he's trying to answer the question.
But he answered it this way.
I am not Jewish.
Neither was my mother or father.
Anyone saying that Jesus and his Jewish father had something to do with my birth is a damn evil liar.
I am of nature's harmonic time cube, in which both word and God are outlawed.
No plant nor animal speaks word.
A fraud by evil adults.
Ray shot back at accusations that he was stupid or crazy by declaring himself both the greatest thinker and the wisest human.
Nice.
He stated this on the website.
I am a cubic thinker and far wiser than any God, any scientist, and any educator who preaches the evil singularity of a single first corner.
To drive this point home, he created the sites TheGreatestThinker.com and TheWisestHuman.com.
Folks, get your hands on I'mRight.com and guess what?
At one point he complained that he wasn't being permitted to express his views at educational institutions.
I am not allowed to lecture at the word animal academic institutions, for they fear my wisdom
will expose and indict the pen and hirelings as betrayers of dumbass students.
The dung heads who allow their freedom of speech to be suppressed without a whimper,
unbelievable.
Word animals will feel the wrath of cubic curse.
I have to give it to him.
It's incredible.
Word animals will feel the wrath of cubic curse.
Very beautiful.
Right.
That is a unique use of language.
I'll give him that.
It really is.
Because of his outsized online personality and unique content, he actually did start to get attention from the media and academia.
Sometime in 1999 or 2000, Gene Ray was interviewed several times by a man named Michael William LeBron, who is better known by his pseudonym Lionel.
What?
Lionel?
Lionel!
Yeah. So these interviews were broadcast through a short-lived radio internet site called Iyada,
and no surviving copies are known to exist today. However, Lionel played a big part in
helping spread the word of TimeCube beyond the early message boards.
And of course, like you mentioned, Lionel would go on to become not just a QAnon promoter, but he would go on to become a QAnon promoter who caused some controversy when he went to the White House and was photographed with Trump in the Oval Office.
Lionel also, in the mid-2000s, interviewed again, and it was pretty clear that Lionel thought that Gene Ray was a joke and even encouraged his audience to to screw with him. It was kind of messed up. He's treating
him like a clown.
In 2001, Gene Ray was interviewed by a San Francisco man named Bruno Connelly.
A recording of that interview survived, and it is the earliest available recording of Gene Ray.
Hello?
Hello, can I speak to Gene Ray, please?
Hey, Gene Ray.
Hey, Gene.
My name's Bruno.
I'm calling from San Francisco, California, and I'm doing a little studying on the time cube, and I was wondering if you might have a few minutes to chat with me about it?
Sure.
So maybe if you could just explain the basics of the time cube theory itself?
Well, primarily, we have been miseducated into taking the biblical one first day and the academic Greenwich one-day Earth rotation.
There are actually four simultaneous 24-hour days in one rotation of Earth.
When we measure time from one point on Earth, actually four times, or four points exist.
One at midday, one at sundown, one at midnight, and one at sunup.
And the four corners rotate 24 hours each for 96 hours.
And that's all that is.
Some of them try to think that And hence your theory on debunking Greenwich Mean Time?
You can only exist in one corner at a time during the four corner rotation, but three other people can exist in the
others.
And hence your theory on debunking Grinch meantime, the fact that there is no concept of a single day because we
always have these four days.
That's right. You are one of four.
Just like your body has a back and two sides, but you only walk in one direction.
You are a human is really a quarter or one corner.
Bruno Conley seems to be a very compassionate and open.
open-minded interviewer and he seems to make an earnest effort to take Gene Ray seriously.
Ray claims that he had been working on this theory for 20 years and at one point he seems
to say that he created the Time Cube site after getting repeatedly banned from message
boards.
To the best of your knowledge, are you the first person to have discovered the Time Cube?
Yes, I can't find anything anywhere.
They threw me, I used to get on some of the internet scientific and philosophy boards
and they threw me off because I wouldn't compromise with them.
And so that's the reason I started the Time Cube.
By the end of the interview, Ray talks about his belief that our fathers are fish because
our DNA originated in sperm?
So, hey, let me ask you another question.
Did you know your father was a fish?
My father was a fish?
No.
Please explain.
Well, he was a micro-sperm fish.
I mean, the sperm swims upstream, just like the salmon do.
They fertilize the female egg laid in the water.
Interesting.
It is.
And so it's so fascinating, the stuff that you can come up with in this thing.
But see, what religion does primarily, it is a cessation of Yeah, good deal.
inquiry for higher being, a higher life.
In other words, you know, they won't let people go about that.
And so, but hey, I appreciate you calling.
Anything you can do.
Yeah, I appreciate the chat and perhaps we'll have the opportunity to chat again someday
and debate it again.
Yeah, good deal.
Cheers.
Yeah, thank you.
Thanks, Jane.
Bye.
But this actually doesn't track because none of us look like sperm.
We look like our human parents.
Most of the people I hang out with look like cum.
Despite the incomprehensibility of Gene Ray's theories, he developed the following among college students.
This led to an invitation to speak on a panel about TimeCube at the prestigious University MIT.
What?
Well, I think it was... this is really more of a student-led thing.
It was like, these tech students who were overwhelmingly over-represented on the internet just thought this TimeCube theory was hilarious.
And it sounds like someone said, oh, wouldn't it be funny if we got them to talk here?
Yeah.
And they succeeded.
Some IRL shitposting.
Yeah.
Will you hire the shitposter to come post at your panel?
They had to rewrite the entire mathematics and science curriculum at MIT afterwards because of the revelations he made during that speech.
Here's how the event was described by the organizer.
Guest speaker Gene Ray will talk about his world-famous harmonic time cube.
A question-and-answer session will follow the talk, along with a panel debate composed of Gene Ray, Harvard, and MIT representatives.
Event open to members of the MIT community only.
Gene Ray appeared at the MIT events while wearing a white golf shirt and a hat with the words TimeCube.com and MIT2002 emblazoned on them.
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