Yahoo Creating World's Biggest Time Capsule

[XSAlliN]

Yahoo is encouraging people from around the world to contribute to what it is calling the largest time capsule in the history of the world. "It will be fascinating to see what people submit as their part of this 2006 snapshot, which will be shared with generations to come," said Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief of Yahoo.

Submissions can be made on such topics as love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, past, now, hope and "you." Yahoo will then weave the contributed multimedia content into a single piece of digital art online. At the end of the project, the content will be saved in a digital archive and sealed, to be opened at Yahoo corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., on the company's 25th anniversary in 2020. It will also provide copies of the content to the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings archives in Washington, D.C.

That should live a mark of our existence, hope the Meteor won't drop or will ruin everything

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[DTU_XaVier]

I wonder if anybody would send their computers

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[ocmyface]

its a digital time capsule...

so its only digital multimedia and such. theres no physical items, its basically going to be an archived website full of random pictures, sounds, and videos that nobody looks at until 2020

exciting

[nn_step]

God I love the fact that they include all that media and no way to read any of it

[DTU_XaVier]

Originally Posted by nn_step

God I love the fact that they include all that media and no way to read any of it

Not to mention back-ups of the entire thing

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[biohead]

I'm already drowning in my own crap on my old HDDs/partitions.... =/

[XSAlliN]

If this is the case, the first people who plays this in 2020 will compare or generation whit apes.