Internet services giant Yahoo has commenced its "digital time capsule" project, aimed at preserving and remembering today`s era.
Contributions will be safely kept until 2020 and beyond, giving people living in the future a comprehensive idea of what life was like in 2006. Yahoo has invited people from all over the world to contribute words, pictures, videos, sounds and drawings which mark present-day cultures.
"This digital mosaic of humanity will be projected onto an ancient pyramid and beamed into space before it is presented to Smithsonian Folkway Recordings, until 2020," reads the time capsule Web site.
"This time capsule is the first-ever collection of electronic anthropology, capturing the world`s voices, images and stories."
Begun today, Yahoo is giving everyone 30 days to submit their contributions. All submissions are divided into themes, titled: love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, past, now, hope, and you.
"This is where you can share a piece of your world with the global online community, and be part of history in the making," the Web site continues.
The site`s artist, Jonathan Harris, explains in a statement the reason for the project: "In a tradition as old as cave art, one of the most primal human traits is the need for self-expression. We make drawings and paintings, take photos, sing songs, write stories and poems, keep blogs, build houses, write memoirs... We do these things to become individuals, to fight anonymity and the passage of time."
The time capsule`s landing page features a spinning globe comprising the most recent contributions condensed into minutare "tiles" that can be enlarged when clicked upon.
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