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[–] warm@kbin.earth 76 points 1 week ago (9 children)
  • 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!

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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!"

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.

The loading of the time capsule was broadcast on cable. People taped it. At least some of which is uploaded to Youtube.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, by 2042, the technology to read books will be gone.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm imagining Wall-E humans

[–] rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, we'll invent Book Reading as a Service by then. It runs on rust and kubernates.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The twinkies should still be edible

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Tell him about the Twinkie

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What are twinkies? I see them referenced a lot in popular media and then depiction appears to be of a glazed eclair, so the worst possible version of an eclair, baked goods like wrap tend to go stale after about 10 minutes I'm not sure why they're supposed to last for so long.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Your description, “the worst possible version of an eclair”, is essentially correct.

In terms of how long they actually last, I don’t really know. But it has been a recurring joke for many years that they are basically indestructible.

I’m sure they are pumped full of artificial preservatives though…

Twinkies are cream-filled sponge cake fingers. They aren't glazed or iced. First introduced by the Hostess company in 1930, the cream filling was originally banana flavored but it was switched to vanilla during WWII rationing.

Twinkies, among many other similar cake-based snacks are made with emulsified shortening rather than butter or vegetable oil as you might bake a cake at home, which keeps them from going stale when stored at room temperature. This has led to an urban legend that they have an infinite shelf life, that they might even survive a nuclear war. 20th century Twinkies had a stated shelf life of 7 to 10 days; in 2012 a preservative was added which upped it to 45, but they do indeed spoil.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] angband@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So the battery in the camera will ooze over everything.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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.

You forgot they filled it with slime to preserve it all.

[–] boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Definitely zebra gum

[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lowkey I hope it's just full of slime

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I hope it’s just gallons and gallons of expired rotten Gak

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh shit, 2042, that's, like, another 35 years from now, right?

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fun fact: You are closer to 2042 than to 1992

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you Dr Klein

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yo even though it was corpo-hell, that beauty of the Oasis and being any being was so alluring to me. And IP being a thing of the past (I was impressed by how many references they managed to stuff in the movie, maybe 1/4 of the book aha).

Ya it still required working loads to buy MTX or a ticket to travel, but it was so freeing in other senses.

Guess we got VRChat for this timeline lol

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

That's not fun.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TwodogsFighting 8 points 1 week ago

It's slime. And it will have mutated into a world ending bacteria.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Oh shit. Now I have a reason to live! Thanks!

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

The concept of time capsules should be put in a time capsule.

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I saw one that was a 25 year capsule. I have some boxes of crap in my garage that quality as time capsules.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now that you mention it, I would kind of like to know what color slime turns after that many years.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Picture looks like it's full of Gak™

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'll be my early 50s, that's not even a good times capsule, I'll still know all of the things that are.

I suppose it's aimed at children, "this is what your parents thought was important", presumably everyone will then have a good laugh at the VCR in the cassette tape that will inevitably be in there and no one will have any way to play.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

50 years is a really good timeline for a time capsule. Close enough that parents or grandparents were there and lived it, far enough out that it’s decades before you existed.

Time capsules are never meant for the people who were there when they were sealed. That would defeat the purpose of a time capsule…

No shit you remember it. You were there. That’s the whole damn point. That there will be people around that lived it and can actually explain it all firsthand. That’s why they’re not super long-timeline things. It’s not for you. It’s nostalgia for the people that buried it, and a good passing down of information from generation to generation. But the primary point of time capsules are showing new generations history.

It’s like how the 90s are an exhibit at museums now. I took my kids to one. It was fun explaining all the shit they saw and thought was wild, because I lived it firsthand and it was just life.

It'll be fun when it’s my grandkids too.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Drink Your Ovaltine

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Dan Schneider's Phylactery

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

50 years is at most only two generations. real change occurs at 5 or more

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

At most? You must live in a nice area. Here you have some kids looking for gifts for their grandmothers 40th birthday.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems to missing a few screws, looks like its already been opened.

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