A Timeline for the 2012 Meme
February 25, 2010
Ever wondered when and how the whole 2012 thing entered our consciousness? Here’s a (non-comprehensive) overview of how it all fell into place:
- Ancient Times - the Mayans (or some earlier civilization) created the Long Count calendar, which ends on Dec 21 2012
- 1897 - Joseph Goodman (Mark Twain’s first editor), published a paper proposing the 3114 BC start date
- 1937 - J. Eric Thompson publishes the GMT (Goodman Martinez Thompson) Correlation, confirming the 3114 BC start date, and therefore the Dec 21 2012 end date
- 1975 - several books are published that refer to 2012, including The Transformative Vision by José Argüelles and The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna
- 1996 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock first suggests the idea of 2012 being the End of the World in the form of a global cataclysm
- 1998 - Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins introduces the concept of a Galactic Alignment
- 2000 - The launch of Survive 2012, the first website devoted to the 2012 doomsday scenario. Geoff Stray’s compendium of all things 2012, Diagnosis 2012, followed shortly after.
- 2006 - Decoding the Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy airs on the History Channel, the first of many similar documentaries
- 2006 - 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
- 2006 - 2012 Forum website launched
- 2008 - Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization’s End by Lawrence E. Joseph
- 2009 - The Hollywood blockbuster movie 2012 causes discussion of the topic everywhere from CNN to Playboy magazine
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