Make Your Mark on the Yahoo Time Capsule

I had heard/read about this and today I received an e-mail which actually made me check into it myself. Yahoo is compiling a Time Capsule that is open to contributions from anyone for another 27 days (30 days total). I haven’t had much time to look at it myself but from the few moments I spent looking at the contributions…I must admit I found this an exceptional collection and one that I’m sure will explode with many more contributions as word gets out.

Here’s a direct quote from the site (About Page)

You and what matters to you.

Like everything Yahoo! does, it?s about you ? our amazing users. We think there?s no one better suited to teach future generations what the world was like in 2006. For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio ? even drawings ? to this electronic anthropology project. This is the first time that digital data will be gathered and preserved for historical purposes.

In addition to submitting your own content, you can view, read, or hear the images, words, and sounds contributed by users from around the world.

You can also comment on the content you and others have submitted ? and engage in a digital conversation that is just as revealing and important as any of the content you?ll witness.

And by November 8, 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., officially taking its place in history.

Finally, to thank you for your contribution to the Time Capsule, you?ll be asked to help us select how Yahoo! will donate $100,000 to seven global charitable organizations.

Check it out…and drop in a thought.

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