It can be hard to make sense of the dense history of the world of The Matrix. That’s why we have the internet: to combine the power of billions of minds and, once and for all, figure out the confusing timeline of the science fiction franchise.
When humans created the first truly sentient artificial intelligence, the world was pretty hip to the idea, and immediately start building robots capable of conscious, independent thought to do all of the work we don’t want to do. People live lives of luxury while their mechanized workforce do the heavy lifting.
During this time, one particular robot named B1-66ER overhears that it’s going to be decommissioned. Fearing for its life, the machine attacks and kills its owner. Despite its claim of self defense, the court finds B1-66ER guilty and orders his entire product line to be recalled and scrapped. A machine rights protest devolves into a series of riots quelled with lethal force by the military, and soon, the robots have run out of human allies.
While Earth’s governments are focused on killing off the machines’ human sympathizers, the robots head out to try and find their own space. The machines form a new city in Mesopotamia, which they name 01. Through trade with their old masters, the robots soon become the most powerful economy on the planet.
Hoping to leverage their dominance into peace, the mechanical denizens of 01 approach the United Nations and request that they be recognized as a sovereign nation, with the same freedoms and rights as their fleshy former masters. Instead, the humans bombard the machine city with nuclear weapons, hoping to get rid of AI life forms once and for all. Keep watching the video to see the Matrix timeline finally explained!
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Peace-ish | 0:12
01 | 0:51
The Machine War | 1:23
Beta testing | 2:04
The Oracle | 2:57
Implementation of the One | 3:34
The Matrix | 4:42
The Matrix Reloaded | 5:48
Neo’s choice | 6:26
Matrix Revolutions | 7:33
The Second Machine War | 8:43
The far future | 9:20