Light Chat with E.T.
| Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 | --jr |
Ok, I'll admit that I'm not really sure about this one as far as the "Sending a laser encoded message to alien civilizations" bits (the science show addicted junkie in me keeps pointing out the differences between a laser pointer and a megaphone), but the rest of the Yahoo! Time Capsule does seem pretty cool.
It's a collection of the stuff you think sums up life in 2006, to be sealed up in the Smithsonian and re-opened in 2020. With any hope, they'll even be able to read it on their crystalline nano-processor implants.
Wonder if their version of FireFox will still support Flash?
January 4th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
[...] Back in 2005, we commissioned the artist Jonathan Harris (who also did the Yahoo! Time Capsule) to help us celebrate our 10th birthday by producing a 10-year retrospective of the Internet. The resulting Netrospective presented images and blurbs of 100 web highlights from 1995 to 2005, presented in a flashy 10×10 grid. It’s still interesting to look back on how things used to be as well as to think about where we’ve gone in just the past two years. And, of course, you can’t go wrong with dancing babies (#15). [...]