Sith> Okay, look:
At one point in time the Machines created the Matrix. 2101.
So when it’s 2101 in the REAL world, it was now the year 1900 in the Matrix.
In the year 2199 in the REAL world, it’s the year 1999 in the Matrix and the Second One is freed.
In the year 2200 in the REAL world its the year 2000 in the Matrix, the second One meets the Architect and enters the Source.
It’s STILL the year 2200 in the REAL world, but the Matrix is now reloaded BACK to 1900.
2299 in the real world: The third One is found, it is ONCE again the year 1999 inside the Matrix (now in it’s third run).
What you must understand is, that when you play a computer game, there is the time YOU spend in the real world playing it. And the time elapsing in the game. If you decide to start all over in your computer game, that has NO effect on the time in the real world. Ok?
We jump to the year 2599 in the REAL world, which is, ONCE again, the year 1999 in the computer-program Matrix. Neo is freed. People in Zion thinks it’s the year 2199, because they know NOTHING about the previous Ones.
What do you mean, there were no machines in 1908? Do you know when the telephone was invented? When computers were invented? There WERE telephones in the our and the matrix year 1908.
And in the REAL worlds, there were hovercrafts and all the stuff we see in the real world of 2599 of the movies.