I’ve got an opportunity to put a small time capsule under some cement in my yard. I realize the chances of anyone finding it in the future are next to null but just for fun what would be something you would put in it if you had the chance?
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Don’t make it for a rando in 1,000 years
Make it for your great-grandkids in 100 years. Leave specific instructions in your will.
You’re still dead reaching out to someone across time. But it’s someone with a good chance of seeing the world not too differently from you, and who you might actually care about.
And who might actually treasure the hot wheels you spent thousands of hours playing with
I want to do this now. Thanks for the idea!
The Lemmy Capsule™
- Beans
- Gurken
- Some thirsty furry memes
- Lots of kobolds
- Femcel memes
- Das Kapital and the Red book
- A guide to self-hosting
kobolds I had to look those up, never heard of them before.
One of those cans of nuts that’s really a spring-loaded snake toy thing.
a journal
Something personal. There’s probably enough “this is what humanity was like in the year nnnn” timecapsules already. Something that won’t decay even under time capsule conditions.
nudes
Get a 50+ year old shoe box
Buy a bunch of fake historic coins on the internet.
Find and print a historic news article about some sort of treasure find from around the same time as the shoe box. Bonus points if on actual newsprint.
Wrap coins in printed news article, place in box, seal box under cement.
A collection of satirical images depicting the annoying orange.
An extremely ridiculous selfie.
Some good smut.
A good, important book that might soon find its way on a burning pile if the general state of things doesn’t improve. Especially if it’s something not extremely common, it might actually have some scientific/cultural value once unearthed. Texts do actually get lost/forgotten, and the ephemeral nature of digital media plays into that, too.
- Buy newspapers every day for a week so that future readers can see the evolution of news stories and the advertisements.
- Magazines in several interest areas - automobiles, women’s fashion, current events, National Geographic
Yeah, the internet probably won’t exist anymore
