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Time capsules should be 100 years, so everyone from when it was sealed is dead.
Although, if you’re sealing up a bunch of pop culture stuff, maybe it’s better to make it 50 years? IDK.
I’m not very interested in time capsule, I guess.
This will mostly ensure most to unopened
Dan Schneider’s Phylactery
Looks sort of like a Stargate (okay no chevrons to lock I know) just push the right coordinates on the DHD and you’ll be fine. Depending where you are in the universe…or galaxy? Can’t recall how far they went, time for another rewatch it seems.
Lowkey I hope it’s just full of slime
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I don’t know…
- Movies, including Home Alone and Back to the Future on VHS
- CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer and Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album
- A Nintendo Game Boy
- Rollerblades
- Reebok Pump sneakers
- A jar of Gak, at the request of a Dr. Emmett Brown impersonator, who showed up in a real DeLorean and fake hair
- One of Joey Lawrence’s “Whoa! ’92” hats, which he stopped by to present
- News reports, including coverage of the AIDS crisis, Desert Storm, and the end of the Soviet Union
- Books, including a world atlas, history book, comic book, phone book, the Orlando TV Guide for the week of April 30, 1992, and a copy of the Book of - Endangered Species
- An issue of Nickelodeon magazine
- A Nicktoons t-shirt featuring Ren & Stimpy
- A piece of the Berlin Wall
- A Barbie doll
- Pencils
- A skateboard
- A baseball
- Twinkies
- A stick of bubble gum (though no one seems to know which kind)
- Photos of things too big (or alive) to fit inside, including bicycles, planes, trains, cars, politicians and celebrities
- A videotape, which was a recording of the live ceremony, shot by a girl named Vicky who stood onstage to operate the Kid Cam
- The camera recording the tape, which appears to have been unplanned—Mike O’Malley and Joey Lawrence both looked baffled about how to remove the tape from the camera, so the whole setup was tossed in at the last minute
I think 2042 might still be too early to open it, but it will be nice for anyone there to watch it be opened, if they care!
Definitely zebra gum
Unfortunately, by 2042, the technology to read books will be gone.
I’m imagining Wall-E humans
The twinkies should still be edible
Is this a real list? Obviously in 1992 they didn’t know that the Internet would preserve the memory of a lot of this stuff so yeah, feels too early. But imagine the world with no Internet that had moved on and forgotten about Joey’s “whoa!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Studios
There’s a section for the Time Capsule under Opening and Reception. It has the list above in the article more or less and cites this source: https://cdm21072.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p21072coll2/id/784
Which has essentially the list from both above and the wiki. So if we wanted to confirm we’d probably have to go to the video which can be found here: https://youtu.be/W1hxmfi_4J8
Which from my casual viewing seems be approximately the list above with the exception of perhaps a newspaper from the day they loaded the capsule (approximately one minute in), but that is probably accounted for with the news reports.
The loading of the time capsule was broadcast on cable. People taped it. At least some of which is uploaded to Youtube.
It sure feels real. I have a very vague memory of all of that happening. Or maybe I watched a YouTube video about it years ago? It’s hard to say.
I do remember they had pictures of the lid during commercial breaks for a while leading up to it, to build hype.
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Plot twist: the Gak became sentient and consumed the rest of the time capsule’s contents. In 2042 we shall all become Gak.
Surely the water and salt in the Gak is enough to do some damage, if not for its sentience.
Spoilers!!!
Hate to be a downer here, but this is all shit we can see on the Internet now.
Maybe it’s because I was alive at that time, it’s not as interesting to me. Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man.
The internet wasnt as ubiquitious then as it is now. I do agree, that time capsules need to wait a bit longer these days given how digital records keep about as long if you try.
Oh shit, 2042, that’s, like, another 35 years from now, right?
Fun fact: You are closer to 2042 than to 1992
Stop doing math 😡
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
That’s unpossible!
Thank you Dr Klein
I measure time by the sci-fi periods we pass. Obviously BTTF I was a big year. The world as we knew it ended the year after. Next is I,Robot in 2035 iirc, then Blade Runner 2042
Wade Watts from the print version of Ready Player One was born August 12th, 2026.
We are very close. Not that RPO is as old as any of the media you mentioned, nor is the setting as far-future in terms of technological advancements.
There will come soft rains was just now.
That’s not fun.
Picture looks like it’s full of Gak™
I hope it’s just gallons and gallons of expired rotten Gak
Some time capsules are so unambitious. I remember seeing a library buried one for ten years. The person who buried it was the same person who dug it up.
I saw one that was a 25 year capsule. I have some boxes of crap in my garage that quality as time capsules.
The concept of time capsules should be put in a time capsule.
Oh shit. Now I have a reason to live! Thanks!
Drink Your Ovaltine
Seems to missing a few screws, looks like its already been opened.
