Yahoo Launched a Time Capsule

  • October 13, 2006

  • By Kaly

align This is something fun and rather unusual. Yahoo has lauched a Yahoo time capsule. This time capsule will run for 30 days (from Oct. 10 untill Nov 8 ) accumulate data and then saved for the future generations. People in the future will be able to see what was it like in year 2006 through images, writings, audio files, videos and drawings which are currently submited by users.

You can go and drop there allmost anything you feel like. There is no word about when the capsule will be revealed to the world but something like letter to your children or grandchildren can be fun. I am thinking of dropping a screenshot of makeuseof’s index page.

Categories under which stuff can be dropped include: LOVE, ANGER, FUN, SORROW,FAITH, BEAUTY, PAST, NOW, HOPE and YOU. You can also view what other users said and comment. If you want to be a bad ass and be remembered this may be a right time for some criticism.

Actually, this is the first time that digital data will be gathered and preserved for historical purposes.On November 8th, you will have helped create a digital legacy of our times, a mosaic of revealing snapshots that will be sealed and entrusted to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings based in Washington D.C.,and officially taking its place in history.

It has been 4 days since release and many people already submited interesting content.

If you wish to use it sign up is required but if you have an account for any Yahoo services you can use it. Ok now I am off to drop a line there as well…

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Kaly

A father of two, neo geek, tech-obsessed male who runs the MakeUseOf Directory. He is also the co-founder of MakeUseOf and been here since makeuseof went live.

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  • Niran Maharjan

    Really wonderful and inspiring websites for kids and also nice suggestions. Thanks!

  • Dave Drager

    Thanks for the list! Can’t wait to show them to my daughters!

  • Saikat Basu

    When I was researching this post, I expected a few more resources to turn up. Surprisingly, there are just these few that fall under ‘encyclopedias’.

  • Mark O’Neill

    What’s so wrong about the normal Wikipedia for kids? Is there porn, bad language and graphic scenes that I am missing?

  • Saikat Basu

    I would still go with the Simple English version of Wikipedia rather than the normal one because of the language. And this if from practical experience of teaching my seven year old niece :) . It’s not the content, but as a parent you have to put in more effort to dumb it down into a more understandable form.

    Then there was this controversy a few months back over Wikipedia content.

  • Aibek

    I was surprised to read this. Never thought Wikipedia was so unsafe for minors. Thanks for heads up.

  • Saikat Basu

    So was I as I personally never came across any image that might be considered ‘inappropriate’. But it is such a huge site that there may be instances we miss.

  • Bradnikelson

    wow.Thanks