Samstwitch
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John was specific that his mission was to retrieve the 5100 due to its special capabilities. He was also specific about going to the year 2000 for "personal reasons", although he never really explained why.
You are missing information and have some information wrong.
John did explain why he traveled forward on our Timeline, but it was to the year 1998, not 2000. He began posting on the Internet in the year 2000.
John went to 1998, because he made a deal with his grandfather. His grandfather would give him an IBM 5100 computer if John agreed to go to 1998 and warn his parents about Y2K, so they could prepare for it. That was the deal.
I personally dont think his "mission" was to "troll" as much as it was his personal intrigue. Possibly even provocation on his part (largely in part because of his disdain for the people on our timeline). Another theory is boredom.
It is my opinion that John began conversing online for at least 2 reasons that seem obvious to me (however, only John would know if I'm correct):
1) HOME: John I and John II both had trouble getting home and they didn't know how many 'Johns' would show up on this World Line, so they had to post information to prevent multiple Johns from returning to the same World Lines. Also, they were having trouble returning home themselves. So they devised a plan...and part of that plan entailed becoming well-known on the Internet, so they could pass on information to themselves and other Johns, and access the information in the Video (which is why it was posted by John's mother).
2) Y2K: As January 1, 2000 came and went, John quickly realized that his visit to his grandfather in 1975 altered the events on our World Line. I believe he felt very guilty about that, because his actions started a chain of events...and when nothing happened over Y2K, people here became very complacent. However, on John's World Line, the disastrous events of Y2K drastically changed the character of people (they stopped trusting the U.S. government), and woke them up! Hundreds of thousands of deaths will do that to people.
John also saw the fraudulent 2000 Presidential Election, but on our World Line, people did little or nothing about George W. Bush stealing an election. I believe on John's World Line there was an uprising over the Elections, which escalated in November 2004 when GW Bush stole the Presidential Election AGAIN and it sparked a U.S. Civil War on his World Line. John talked about the Elections online, and his mother made notes about what he did during that time in the book she published.
Well there's a LOT more to say about the information that I just posted, but I've already posted a lot of it on the I'm an Expert on John Titor: Feel free to engage me in Conversation thread...and I don't have energy or time to go over it all.
The information is out there if you really want to know, but it takes a lot of work to research this subject. My theories and opinons about John come from doing a thorough job of researching.
Take care, ~Sam~