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
� All 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 (news -
web sites) 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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