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Varin
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 		Matrix Timeline
The Associated Press has put together a timeline of the events from clues in the Matrix movies and Animatrix...

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What is the Matrix?

That's an old question. The real head-scratcher is:

When is the Matrix?

Using background culled from the three movies and "Animatrix" shorts, The Associated Press compiled an estimated timeline of the war between men and machines:

2010-60 — Humans create humanoid drone robots with Artificial Intelligence to fill jobs as construction laborers and servants.

2069 — The hovercraft transport ship Nebuchadnezzar, later to be captained by Morpheus, is constructed in the United States.

2075 — AI programs evolve and some robots began to resent their human overlords.

2077 — In the first case of a machine rising up against its owners, the butler robot B166ER slaughters two humans, leading to B166ER's eradication and a backlash against robots and artificial intelligence.

2080-85 — Rioting and violence against machines prompts robots to flee major cities and establish their own community — known as Zero One — in a remote part of the Middle East.

2085-2095— Zero One thrives, creating superior vehicles, computers and weaponry and decimating the economies of many human nations, which now lack the machine-based labor that made them strong.

2096— United Nations officials refuse to accept the robot civilization of Zero One as a sovereign nation. A trade blockade of robot goods leads to war.

2097 — Zero One survives a nuclear attack — its inhabitants are impervious to the heat and radiation and casualties are quickly replaced. Counterstrikes launched against humans.

2098 — As cities fall beneath the might of mechanized forces, desperate military leaders attempt to block the main source of energy for the robot city: the sun. The plan destroys the atmosphere and fills the sky with choking black smoke — but does not stop the machines.

2099— Machine forces overtake human armies and capture survivors and civilians for experimentation, determining that human bio-electricity can be harnessed to replace the sun's energy.

2100 — Machines create the Matrix, a dream-like world set in 1999, to extend the lives of the comatose human batteries.

2105 — The first human known as The One, locked in bondage inside the Matrix, learns he can manipulate the world through thought and manages to break free. Seeks sanctuary in the underground human stronghold of Zion.

2105-2150 — Zion resistance movement created, although The One later dies under unexplained circumstances.

2161 — Morpheus born in a Matrix womb; freed in childhood.

2167 — Trinity born in a Matrix womb; freed in early childhood.

2175 — The Oracle prophesizes that Morpheus will discover the second coming of The One.

2199 — Trinity and Morpheus discover Neo, a hacker in the Matrix. They free him and do battle with Agent Smith, a program designed to rid the Matrix of humans who detect its flaws.

2201 — The Osiris, another human rebellion ship, discovers machines drilling through the Earth above Zion. Crew members send a message through the Matrix to their compatriots shortly before being destroyed.

2201 — Now living in Zion and working with the rebellion against the machines, Neo encounters The Architect, the artificial intelligence program that created the Matrix.

2201 —The Architect reveals that the Matrix places rebellious humans in Zion, which it then targets for destruction, thus eradicating "bugs" in its system. He states that Zion has been destroyed five previous times — suggesting the Matrix may be much older than he thinks.

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nathius
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 		this is all well and good; but there was 5 reloads in 100 years. that means there were at least two reloads while morpheus was free. and that zion has been destroyed a number of times since morpheus was free. i think that they may have missed a couple of hundred years in there somewhere.

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XtRaVa
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 		why do people keep posting that timeline?! its wrong...it sucks, whoever wrote it has never even watched the matrix! it says morpheus is born 2161, its more like 2561, and everything on from morpheus is all wrong... each are 100 years between each reload...who the hell wrote this timeline?! it sucks....i know im being ott, but last time this was posted it was wrong...its no better now!

[edit] wtf?!?! 2069 — The hovercraft transport ship Nebuchadnezzar, later to be captained by Morpheus, is constructed in the United States.
whatever...that would make that ship like 500 years old...god who wrote this?!!?! [/edit]

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Zimbu
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 		Cool In Matrix 1, doesn't it show a shot of the Neb's dedication plate? Couldn't you get the construction year off that by pausing a DVD or something?
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XtRaVa
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 		How would that make a difference, they dont know at that point that they are actually like 500 years away from the approx time they think it is because they dont know its the 5th version of the matrix, and that it gets reloaded, and the people of zion die every 100 years.

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Varin
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XtRaVa wrote:
why do people keep posting that timeline?! its wrong...it sucks, whoever wrote it has never even watched the matrix!

....i know im being ott, but last time this was posted it was wrong...its no better now!


There are so many better ways to say what you just said. No need to be rude here at UF. I posted that days ago for discussion, without really even reading it all through. Perhaps, you should come up with a timeline that is correct then?
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XtRaVa
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 		I wasnt being rude towards you at all, I dont care WHO posted the timeline at all, you were just posting it for general interest etc...sorry if I annoyed you personally...its just I dont understand how a timeline could be made so completely incorrect, by so called "professionals" or people who have made it as though it is in fact, fact. When its clearly a complete misrepresentation of how and when things actually happened...I apologise once again to you, but that timeline is ridiculous =[

And no, I couldnt make a better timeline from scratch like they did (mine wouldnt include dates of certain things, just general things), but I havn't gone and posted a timeline which I think is correct without really finding out if it is or not...besides, I could easily improve it now that ones been made.

bye...

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