Context: Amid the millennium craze of late 1999, @Crayola_Capital offered a simple time capsule. My brother and I both made one on the verge of the new year. I originally had the idea of burying it somewhere, but for whatever reason that never happened.
Instead, I ended up carrying it with me into adulthood, from one place to another. Many times I've thought about just throwing it out or cracking it open, but I never did. Until now, 25 years later.
The first thing I pulled out was this AIDS flier. The sticker on it reminds me of something I had forgotten: the time capsule kit came with stickers prompting you to include different kinds of things. Here are some pamphlets from the late '90s. x.com
Looks like a button from when my mom ran for school board, something about allergies, and some pogs. x.com
This is what an Icee cost at Walmart, apparently. Also a note that I wrote to you, the people of the future. Bonus: TI calculator info. x.com
Apparently I recorded a message and some music? I'll also have to try to find some way to access these disks, if they still work. x.com
Follow-up:
Some of the negative comments are cracking me up. ๐ No offense taken. I was a kid. I didn't have any money, and I grew up in a small town. This is apparently what I had to put in the capsule. It's all real.
Family was actually not very religious back then. Much more so now. I had just started to get interested in Christianity over the course of the previous year or so. The devotional stuff is a reflection of that. Yes, I am a priest today.
My handwriting has not improved in the slightest.
Why did I include the AIDS pamphlet? And the others? Honestly I'm not sure. I didn't remember including them. It's possible that they were just free materials that could fit in the capsule. AIDS was also something that we heard about all the time. So I probably thought of it as a timely thing.
I'm glad so many of you enjoyed this! If I can find a way to play the tape and see what's on the disks, I will do an update.
Some of the negative comments are cracking me up. ๐ No offense taken. I was a kid. I didn't have any money, and I grew up in a small town. This is apparently what I had to put in the capsule. It's all real.
Family was actually not very religious back then. Much more so now. I had just started to get interested in Christianity over the course of the previous year or so. The devotional stuff is a reflection of that. Yes, I am a priest today.
My handwriting has not improved in the slightest.
Why did I include the AIDS pamphlet? And the others? Honestly I'm not sure. I didn't remember including them. It's possible that they were just free materials that could fit in the capsule. AIDS was also something that we heard about all the time. So I probably thought of it as a timely thing.
I'm glad so many of you enjoyed this! If I can find a way to play the tape and see what's on the disks, I will do an update.
Follow-up: 2: I realize that in the second post I tagged the wrong @Crayola. Oops.
Follow-up 3: For people who are assuming the pamphlets come from an ultra-religious upbringing, I can understand why you might think that. But the reality is they came from going to public school during the '90s.
Follow-up 4: I was able to play the tape.
It starts with reading from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, continues with references to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a poem (?) by me (?), musings on the future, and then into a song by Alanis Morissette. ๐ฌ
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It starts with reading from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, continues with references to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a poem (?) by me (?), musings on the future, and then into a song by Alanis Morissette. ๐ฌ
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