The History of the Panama Canal: Every Year
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2024
- In 1881, France began constructing a canal across the Panamanian isthmus. The US would complete the job later, changing commerce flow for the whole world. The canal would have multiple updates and changes.
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Music used:
"The Complex" by Kevin MacLeod
found at www.incompetech.com
Sources:
- “Culebra Cut.” Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, n.d. pancanal.com/en/culebra-cut/
- “Design of the Locks.” Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, n.d. pancanal.com/en/design-of-the....
- Funke, Daniel. “A Timeline of the Panama Canal.” Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2016. www.latimes.com/world/mexico-....
- “Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty.” Signed: 18 November 1903.
- “Isthmus of Panama Showing Panama Canal.” Map. Atlas of the World. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1908.
- Ormsbee, William H. “SUMMARY OF MILITARY PROPERTY TRANSFERS AND MILITARY FORCES DRAWDOWN.” Who’s Scroll, July 4, 2008. william_h_ormsbee.tripod.com/treaty_trans_summ_mil_p01.htm.
- “The Isthmus of Panama.” Map. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10th Edition, 1900.
- “The Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal.” Signed: 07 September 1977.
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Note that due to the nature of the artificial lake, Gatun Lake occasionally varied in size due to floods, which is partially why they had to build Madden Dam. Once the lake was filled I just went with the typical average size of the lake that other maps opt to show.
Is there a video on the Suez Canal
@@scientificnameofpigs Not yet but there'll be one later in the year.
wow. I never knew that this lake was artificial. I am a bit blown away right now.
@@EmperorTigerstar Hello, this is one year later. It's 2024, and EmperorTigerstar did make a video on the Suez Canal.
@@scientificnameofpigs bro the name bro
the song makes it sound like the construction of the panama canal was a multifaceted civil war between militants and a collapsing central government
I mean, there was a rebellion and lots of worker deaths involved, so...close enough?
@@EmperorTigerstar true
a local lawyer ad used this in one of their psas about asbestos
Somalia
Manuel Noriega.
I always imagined the Panama canal to be just a straight line through the country, it's interesting to see how it actually looks like
The French tried it and they failed, leading to the guy who led this operation (same guy who built the Suez Canal) to be charged with embezzlement...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 ha hmm
*what we can say. nuts.*
2:05 USA jumpscare
"just cause"😂
That's if "just cause" means using Panama as a testing ground for weapons
@@DanBz13 How Panamanian I can say that despite the fact that no one liked the invasion it was something necessary the ruler of that time was a dictator if nothing had been done we would end up like any other authoritarian country
@@liammate I mean Panama was ruled by a dictator at that time
@@jerryhu4763 doesn't justify
Maps like this really need a scale (eq. line equal to 100 km). Without it it's really hard to understand how much progress is being made.
From the map from top to bottom (in a straight line) would be about 40 miles (~65 km), as a rough visual estimate. The length of the route a ship might take through the canal is about 51 miles (~82 km), according to some sources online.
Didn't know that Panama city was right next to the canal.
Si de echo la ciudad de Panamá es mucho más grande pues abarcaba ambas parte este y oeste del canal años después se dividió en Panamá y Panamá Oeste
@@diegod3126wait does that mean Panama is transcontinental?
Because Egypt is transcontinental because of the Suez Canal.
@@anthonyhenryofficial2811no, en este país se considera que América es un solo continente no dos
@@diegod3126oh, ok.
@@anthonyhenryofficial2811 even in places were the americas are considered 2 continents, panama isnt considered transcontinental as the north/south american border is usually marked by a small mountain range at the bottom of panama. (though it is sometimes marked at the canal for some reason)
In his book „Spy for Germany“ Erich Gimpel describes that Germany during WW2 was planning an Operation to Take out the canal. The plan was supposed to encompass two Subs carrying Stukas-to-be-Assembled which would Land somewhere on the Panama coast at Night. There on the beaches Engineer Teams would Build the stukas in short time which would then take off the Beach.
The stukas target was suppossed to be a „discovered“ weak point pointed out by a Former builder of the Channel. Its very questionable how reliable this Info this was but they thought this could take out the Channel for a year.
They were actually only a week away from commencing the Operation before it was cancelled. They had fully trained all engineers and Pilots to Take off from the Short Sandy Beach. However the Agency received a tip that the Americans knew of the Operation and it was deemed to risky.
Former builder of a large government project leaking the secrets for a questionable singular weakpoint? Assembly of a crack team of pilots for a single extremely risky maneuver to buy time and hopefully turn the tide of the war?
"Use the Force, Hans..."
@@BetaDude40 O would expect the operation to begin on may 4th
The interesting thing about the Panama Canal Zone is that while Colón fell within the Canal Zone boundary, it was excluded from the Panama Canal Zone alongside Panama City. The capital of the Panama Canal Zone was Balboa, which is now a district of Panama City. Gamboa wasn't established until 1911 during construction to house "silver roll" workers (workers from the Caribbean and southern Europe). Gamboa initially had 700 but after the canal was completed, most left. After years of debates and lobbying by Dredging Division Superintendent John G. Claybourn, the Panama Canal Company moved its Dredging Division from the town of Paraíso to Gamboa in 1936, which led to the population to increase again. And US military personnel lived in Gamboa due to a shortage of housing on bases, and they continued living there until 1999.
Something else to note is the January 1964 riots. In Panama, this is commemorated as Martyrs' Day. The background is that JFK agreed to fly the Panamanian flag alongside the US flag at non-military sites in the zone in January 1963, he was assassinated before it was carried out, then the zone governor issued a decree to raise neither flag and the Zonians viewed this as renunciation of sovereignty so they flew the US flag wherever they could in response. To respond to this, Panamanian students marched to Balboa High school to raise the Panamanian flag. The riot started after a Panamanian flag was torn and students were killed during a conflict with Canal Zone Police officers and Canal Zone residents. The US Army became involved in suppressing the violence after Canal Zone police were overwhelmed, and after three days of fighting, about 22 Panamanians and four US soldiers were killed. The incident is considered to be a significant factor in the decision to transfer control through the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
I have followed your channel over 3 years and I’m from Panama and it made me so happy you made this. I just want to let you know your work is incredible and it makes me so happy seeing our history, thanks :)
what history your country is a province of Colombia that was separated by the united states to take over the canal land
@@Santiago-420.69Oh it seems you know nothing. In reality Colombia approved but the administrators of the country didn’t. Actually, the separatist movement got popularity since 1830, and also Panama tried 17 times before. What happened? After the thousands day civil war, Colombia was weak, Panama used this opportunity and began its process for independence. Seeing this, the United States supported Panama and threatened to invade if Colombia attacked Panama after these revolts. Unlike other sources, we didn’t receive rifles or anything, just backing. History? The thousands day war, the 1930, 1950 and 1968 dictatorships, the first years of the country, presidents Arnulfo arias, Juan Demóstenes, the Panama Canal construction, the returning etc. you know nothing
Context for how Panama got independence from Colombia since it's more than just a snap: Panamanians made over 80 attempts to secede from Colombia. They came close to success in 1831, then again during the Thousand Days' War of 1899-1902, understood among indigenous Panamanians as a struggle for land rights under the leadership of Victoriano Lorenzo. When the US and Colombia signed the Hay-Herrán Treaty, the Colombian senate didn't ratify the measure. The US was unwilling to renegotiate or alter, so knowing Panamanians wanted to separate, the US backed the separatists, and sent warships to prevent Colombian troops from entering. The US was the first country to recognize Panama.
The current district of Balboa in Panama City was once the capital of the zone. The former town of Balboa was founded by the US during the construction of the canal, and was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa who became first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World by crossing Panama. During its construction and into the 1940s, the labor force in the Canal Zone (which was almost entirely publicly employed) was divided into a "gold" roll classification, and a "silver" roll classification. American and northern European workers were placed on the gold roll, while those from the Caribbean (mostly Barbados and Jamaica) and southern Europe were put on the silver roll. Until 1918, gold roll employees were paid in gold in American currency, while their silver roll counterparts were paid in silver coin, initially Colombian pesos. Through the years of canal construction, silver roll workers were paid with coins from various nations.
"To show you the power of flex tape, I sawed the Americas in half." -Theodore Roosevelt
Tons of great latin americans vids!! Maybe a video on the american wars of independence? It's a lot but hardly covered in it's full breadth
Eventually!
Very nice video as always and I really love how you credited the sources too in the description. At school, I was taught to always cite and credit all your sources.
wow emperor, this is a really fun video idea
Mira soy panameño y sigo tu canal de hace años por todos los videos de reconocimiento de países y me alegra que haiga hecho sobre el canal de mi país Panamá 🇵🇦 y bueno un saludo de PTY
Wow, this is another banger by EmperorTigerstar. how do you make these videos so well?!
2:06 This was their chance, they blew it. Now, the Canal Zone is slowly fading, as buildings are left to rot.
Tf ur talking about. Panama canal is going as good as ever
@@temize9997 Really? Buildings in ruin, Infrastructure slowly being left in disrepair and now, thanks to incompetent engineers who failed to plan ahead, the dry season is bottlenecking the Canal and leaving many without water. They really didn't think to build another bloody reservoir.
you dont know a single bit about the conflict over the canal do you?
@@pabloulloa2091 It certainly appears I do and you haven't got a clue what you're talking about
@@pabloulloa2091 Are buildings not being left to rot and decay? Is the Canal not going through a water shortage due to lack of foresight?
Its important to know that the same guy who made the Eiffel tower was asigned to do the Panama construction for France, yes he failed and it was one of his contructions he only failed. Gustave Eiffel was truly an amazing person, he also made one of the highest rail bridge in the world to i think.
What a guy.
Yippee new upload from the goat 🐐
This was good!
every time I see a map of Panama it surprises me that the Atlantic coast is the west side and the Pacific coast is at the East side. Although more accurately if you zoom out, the Atlantic cost is the North side and the Pacific side is the South side.
Minor correction, but the French government was not involved in the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal. It was only "French" insofar as it was a private French company funded by investors through the Paris Bourse. The American attempt was an actual government initiative.
Siempre los recordaremos mártires de 9 de enero.
Do you happen to have an Operation Just Cause video?
Gracias por hacer un video sobre la zona del canal de Panamá muchos panameños murieron por recuperarla.
Los Estados Unidos tenían derecho a abrir fuego.
@@Macedonia._ no lo tenían
@@Macedonia._abrieron fuego porque estudiantes panameños pusieron una bandera panameño en "su territorio" y se armaron solo con piedras para tirarles a los gringos, eso es una causa justa para abrir fuego?
@@DanBz13 Eres Panamaña si o no
@@DanBz13 Si una persona viene con un objeto que te puede herir como un cuchillo o como por ejemplo una piedra, tanto a ti como a tu familia, ¿no harías nada?
Love Panama 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇦
"Its ours, we bought, we paid for it." - Reagan
The colonizer nations could have said the same thing about giving their colonies up and just stayed there. Yet they gave these nations which the built many assets in their colonies.
@@SquidMonke4 Leaving Africa was a mistake
@@SquidMonke4 The US should have never left Panama
@@normalplayer7377 wait so you actually believe they should have kept the colonies. Panama wasn’t even paying for its costs anymore their were major canal thickenings that had to be built and the USA left it because they knew their constantly angry moron population wouldn’t want to spend money outside of the country
@@normalplayer7377 Leaving Africa was a mistake for Africans themselves, a year after the departure of the British and later the French there was a wave of murder, rape and civil wars. But the truth is that the colonies were unprofitable just as slavery was in the United States in 1860 where it was realized that there was no need to maintain a slave give him housing etc. since he would work for a bowl of rice anyway. In Africa there was one difference that, except for the Congo, all the colonies had nothing to offer, too much population growth required an increase in bureaucracy, health care and education, when a colony was founded there the idea was to settle and assimilate the population, but when it was realized that even this was impossible, Europe simply evacuated there, and the Second World War only accelerated this when the treasury was empty.
What A Time It Was
You should have added at least a brief window on the January 9th, 1964 riots in Panama, that was fought between native panamanians, who saw the Panama Canal Zone as American colonialism, and so-called "zonians", people descendent of american workers who lived in the Panama Canal Zone, and were fiercely pro-american. Today the events are remembered as 'Martyrs' Day' in Panama, and it is actually something interesting to read about, so you should at least have added something that pointed it out on the map in 1964.
Exactly! I would like this part of the history of Panama to become more known internationally.
20,000~ workers died during the French construction of the canal.
Over 5000 died during the US construction.
Quite interesting
Can you please do this for the suez canal?
Fitting with the video of RealLifeLore about the canal. Adding map data into his long video explanation. So now will the canal go dry ???????
The actual digging finished up surprisingly quickly.
song: (my favorite) The Complex
'Aka the US invasion of Panama' hahaha
This kind of comments really make question the kind of people that are found often in comment sections, what's so funny about this!?
The US has done a lot of invasions that had negative impacts, don't act like you're smart cause you're embarrassing yourself online
Got a trap-steamer, my ship's called Hal
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
Got a cargo of sodas, they are lo-cal
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
Sailing 'cross the Carribean Sea
To the Pacific in a jiffy
Through Panama but not on land
I'd look silly with my ship in the sand
Yo Hal, try that canal
Yo Hal, the canal is your pal
You can sail a cargo ship
From sea to shining sea
Through the Panama Canal
For a nominal fee
You enter a lock, it's a ship coral
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
You pay your money, then get a decal
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
You cross the locks, they number three
Full of water for you and me
100 feet wide, 41 feet deep
Water enough to drench a sheep
High lock, up goes the ship
Low lock, the ship takes a dip
First they raise the water level
Then lower it again
'Cross the Panama Canal
It's real E-Zed
We pass the locks, with good moral
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
The crew yells out, 'Thank you, Hal'
Forty miles on the Panama Canal
You're welcome, men
Wasn't that fun
Forty miles, our voyage is done
For I'm full on now past Balboa
Adios Panama, so long - aloha!
Something tells me I don't want to know where that song is from... but tell me anyway.
@@occam7382 relax, its just from Animaniacs
@@miscellaneoussarnian5282, ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh. That makes complete sense.
I thought it was some early 20th Century propaganda song, kinda like the whole Chiquita Banana thing.
But I guess not.
Still always crazy to realize that the US giving the Panama Canal back to Panama was in my lifetime.
Next: Suez Canal
Now do the Suez Canal. It would be interesting to see all its ancient precursors.
there was a game based on operation just cause
BO2 has a mission for the invasion of Panama
If you mean the Just Cause series then not really. No game takes place in Panama or something like it, they all take place on fictional island nations. The game is named that way because you as an outsider essentially invade said island nations to overthrow the local tyrannical oppressive dictator so arguably for a "Just Cause", like how the US invaded Panama to overthrow or rather capture it's dictator in Operation Just Cause.
1979-1999 isn't the Panama Canal Zone being managed jointly US & Panama ?
It could have been a great opportunity to show the Panamanian independence as well. Between 1878 and 1903, Colombia was going through its bloodiest civil war, the Thousand Days War. Panama was one of the places were combat during this civil war was intense. The control of the cities shown in this video is not completely held by the central government of Colombia, headed by the Conservative Party, but various rebels from the Liberal Party, as well as Panamanian independentists, control different regions of the map shown between those years.
Moreover, the American military intervention could have been show with greater detail, leading to the independence of Panama in 1903.
To sum it up, it would be more accurate to see four factions on the map between 1878 and 1903:
1. Colombian Government (Conservative Party)
2. Colombian Liberal Party Rebels
3. Panamanian Independentist Rebels
4. Armed Forces of the USA
Now do Suez
PANAMA IS COLOMBIA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great!
A dia de hoy Panama solo existe por ese canal, pero les ha ido bien, como giran las cosas no?
UA-cam now thinks im into the Panama canal and is now recommending "Canal De Panama" in complete spanish of course
Good day to learn a superior language rather than english
@@germanyballwork5301i dont know im getting hitler vibes if you catch my drift
@@mariodamian103bru
1989 Its him woods nexus target is Raul Menendez
Carter was a fool
Jimmy Carter returned it back to Panama
I don't remember Operation Just Cause being in our US history schoolbook...
I do, but it's been 20 years since I was in High School, so perhaps it's fallen out of common knowledge.
As a Panamanian myself, I can confirm this is true.
[sorry for the cliche comment]
If it wasn't for the US, they're wouldn't even be a country called Panama. It would still be known as: Department of the Istmus, Colombia.
There WOULD definetely be a country called Panama, you think over 80 ATTEMPTS OF INDEPENDECE would never give something off?
@@DanBz13 Nope, Colombian troops were already in Colón and were preparing to secure the city and march south towards Panama City. Had the US Navy not been sent to every major Colombian Port, reinforcements could've arrived from both the Caribbean and Pacific. Swiftly putting down the uprising.
@@normalplayer7377Even if that attempt failed, there was no way Panama would've just given up, our population just didn't wanna be with Colombia, eventually Panama would've gained independence anyways.
@@DanBz13 The quarrels with Bogotá were over taxation, misappropriation of funds, lack of investment, poor State & Federal infrastructure etc. The last straw was the filibustering of the first US Canal treaty by the Colombian Senate. That gave the Independence movement something to rally everyone behind. Had it not been there, while these grievances were justified, this kinda thing was happening all over the country, not just in the Isthmus. People were upset, but without something to unite them in a struggle. Not to mention that without proper backing, folks would be unwilling to support an uprising against an Army of Professional Soldiers.
@@normalplayer7377Dang you really think panamemanians care about that? Winning an online argument doesn't make you look any better, you should talk about things you actually care about, instead of spreading hate toward we panamanians, we got our rightful independenceand no one should criticize our existence, Viva Panamá🇵🇦.
interesting
Apparently Canal use is decreasing because of a drought in Panama. Seems bad.
I like city of Colón 😁
"Operation Just Cause" reminded me of the just cause games 💀
*what we can say. nuts.*
who won?
I came in and the viewcount is 37999 so hoorah me ig
us; im gonna saw this county in half
More like sawing this country into an economic powerhouse, but close enough! (I know this is a joke lol)
panama of history canal
Блин, США реально воевало с Колумбией что бы освободить Панаму, что бы получить Панамский канал, что бы быстро перевозить ресурсы с Калифорнии до Вашингтона…
"Panama! Panamahah!"
My great-great-grandfather was one of the land surveyors on the southern stretch of this canal. The LA canal too.
Was he an american?
It's weird to think that the Atlantic is in the west and the Pacific is in the east.
The french attempt was so sad
- Музыка 💀
- Ситуация на видио 😊😃😌
Ain't no way the news is saying that THIS monolith is gonna dry
Just like they freaked out during the california drought and freaked out again now that california is flooding. They don't understand that weather isn't a clean thing that sticks to "averages"
Its no gonna happen. The canal have ever had this "problem" during dry season. Interesting enough, now that México is building a "dry canal" (train) there have been a bunch of "news" about it
2:05 Operation Just Cause jump scared
Wtf was operation just cause???
According to Wikipedia, it was an operation to overthrow a dictator connected to the drug trade.
it was something unjustifiabe
It was an operatiom to remove panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from power, although in there they used Panama as a testing ground for their new weapons and then removing the dictator (which took over a month I think)
It's like the Iraq war but in panama
It's so strange that this actually all happened. I mean, how much more "in your face" can Colonialism in the 20th cent. be? They literally created a whole country (independence from Colombia is obviously a ridiculous statement) just to get their ships faster from one coast to the other. I find it so ridiculous that in the US some people actually think, that the US was not and is not a colonial empire.
Also the operation should have be called "Just 'cause (we can)", but I think whoever named it was aware of the obvious joke hidden there...
this dude still makes videos like it's 2015
15 min
pleash venezulan war of indenpence
First
ok
good job buddy
I guess they're in trouble if that dam breaks
Leaving the canal was unusually kind for Uncle Sam... For this Carter was massacred by the right-wing all life long, Torrijos likely murdered, and Panama bombed and invaded before leaving the premises.
As he should
@@Distress. What do you mean??
@@will2brown50 The country of Panama gained it's independence through the US's support so that they could build a canal that would transform global trade. Carter then gave this up because it was the "nice" thing to do. A good leader does not give away vital assets like this just because he is an ideologue. One of the worst presidents and he rightfully suffered politically for it.
@@Distress.I'm a Panamanian, and we're ""kinda"" thankful for what the US did (excluding operation just cause) because they left us with a canal makin us very rich but we aren't a country created by the US, we had over 80 attempts of independence before in 1903, with the help of the US, we peacefully gained independence from Colombia
Carter is always welcome in Panama. We have named a lot of streets after him
why rivers overflowed
Always happens when you build dams
Ukraine war week uptedes vibes😂
Perhaps you could have included the new ownership of old American bases by nationality?
Ligma
It is so sad, that Steve Jobs died of ligma
@@csaszarlajos8473what's Ligma?
@@DanBz13ligma balls😆
Ligman canal
Bruh they totally ripped off the video game series Just Cause smh
Did american citizens settle in the Panama canal? And did english become a majority language in there?
No
First question: yes. They are/were called Zonians and fortunately most have been absorbed into Panamanian culture and those who didnt had a lovely "from the canal to the sea" moment as they left or as they say in panama. "One nation, one flag."
Second question: apart from corrupted english names/phrases like Arraijan (corruption from english "a right hand") and fren (literally friend). No, spanish is the main language
@@germanyballwork5301 Ah thank you for giving a actual explanation instead of a rude quip
Lmao france gave up
US imperialism moment
Good
@@CAProductions051can you tell me what's so good about it so i can get a taste of American freedom too?
@@giorgospapoutsakis5271 Under American Freedom you can:
-Pursue your own goals and aspirations in life without interference from the government.
-Enjoy rights and benefits that you may not enjoy under an authoritarian regime.
-Live your life without the fear of incurring the wrath of the government for some arbitrary reason.
no@@CAProductions051
@@CAProductions051this doesnt apply if youre a dixie or in 2024 a texan. Or if you are a latinamerican nation who dares going against unclesam's (ie US government) ambitions
The US never should have given you t back
They did and it was right. You don’t see the French and British complaining that they lost the Suez Canal. And you don’t see praise given to the uk or France when they tried to invade it
1:56 WROOOOONG!!!! The treaty to turn the Canal Zone over to Panama was agreed to in 1977. The United States and Panama operated the canal jointly until 1999 when Panama officially assumed full control of the canal zone. If you’re going to make a video do a little research.
Read the things on the right dude
The irony of saying 'do your research' when you don't even read what was on the screen clarifying exactly what happened.
cant believe we gave up the canal we built lol
Can’t believe the colonial powers gave up all the mines and everything they built in their colonies and just handed it away to independent countries.
@@SquidMonke4 yeah pretty dumb lol
@@SquidMonke4A lot of them didn't, they just exploit them acting like they aren't because the colonies are "independent"
@@bruhmoment3478 that’s not true most of Africa is getting exploited but it’s mostly by Russia china and USA
@@SquidMonke4 France exploits the most
One of the worst things the United States did in its time was to give its canal to Panama, when the Panamanians arrived, the canal began to fall apart due to Panamanian incompetence. 🤦🏻
Yeah you should post proof to that kind of assertions because not even American foreign policy experts believe that
The canal is working just fine mate. Panama even oversaw its succesful expantion. Dunno wgat youre putting in your tea
@@JoseH-27 dejame decirte que solo andas escribiendo pura mamada
The only incompetent here is you, I'm a Panamanian, and the canal is even better that it was before, US needed to give us that canal because of the murders they commited over keeping land that wasn't theirs, which is why the"Día de los Mártires" exists. Please stop trying to make hate for Panama
@@DanBz13 100% "Un solo territorio!..." (siguelo tu)
We need more American Freedom 🦅🇺🇸
No such thing
What is 'American Freedom' a euphemism for?
@@FlourishPorridge like when they owned the canal? A sequel?
😎
This comment was made 27 minutes ago, yet there are replies from 53 minutes ago... OP time traveler confirmed