From October 10 until November 8, Yahoo users can contribute to an amazing project called Yahoo Time Capsule by submitting photos, writings, videos, audio that define your world today.

Here’s what Y! have to say -

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 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.You and what matters to you.
Before we deliver the Time
Capsule to Washington D.C., we’ll project the capsule contents onto one of the
world’s oldest time capsules, the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán, Mexico, and
beam it into space from the pyramid. Wow. This will take place October 25-27,
and you can watch it live via web cast.
Learn more about The Pyramid of the Sun
and the production of this event
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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. Learn
more about these seven organizations

Why will future generations chant
your username?

What will you save and what will you share? Your
self-portrait. That home video clip that always makes you smile – or cry. A Top
10 list of predictions for the future. Perhaps the single photograph you could
never live without. A list of what makes you angry. A special letter to yourself
or to your children – just in case. A special class project. A letter to your
lost love or to your boss that you’ll never send. The URL of your favorite blog,
web site, or podcast. Perhaps it will be something banal. Perhaps it will be
something beautiful. This is your time capsule.
So let’s review. You’ll be
part of history and witness what other are saying and saving. You’ll have your
handiwork presented to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, projected on one of the
most famous relics on the planet, AND then beamed along a path of laser light
into space. This will definitely be something to email the grandkids about
someday.

So if you have something special to share with the future, a message in a bottle, a prediction, a list of important things for you, send it to the time capsule. The site is almost an work of art, and if you don’t send anything, exploring the site will make your day.The man behind this project is Jonathan Harris, a very talented Internet artist.

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