Time Capsule, Saving memories for the future

How very annoying that Apple have called their new wireless hard drive Time Capsule. You spend ages trying to get the SEO right for your site and think to yourself, hey - Time Capsule can’t be that competitive a keyword. Then what happens, Wallop! one of the biggest marketing machines in the world brings out a product that shares your keyword and pushes you out to page 2 on Google.

On the positive side (which you must always look otherwise it all gets too much) maybe some of those looking for a time capsule from Apple will see our site and think to themselves, “hey what a fantastic idea” I will sign up to The100YearWebSite and create a real Time Capsule. Steve Jacobs has too much money anyway.

I have also been thinking. What happens to the data when the time capsule breaks down? I had an external hard drive go wobbly on my once and they wanted £700 to recover the data (the drive cost £120 in the first instance).  Suffice to say I just spent the next 3 months re loading all my cds back into itunes.

Rumbled !!!!

In our post on the 7th February about setting up a baby time capsule we mentioned that one of the staff members here has had a great idea to take a photo of the child and family on the same day every year, he aims to do this for at least 20 years. This will be a really interesting piece of work that should be great to look back on in future years.

We have since found out that the person in question does not actually have their own brilliant ideas but instead came accross the idea whilst surfing the internet. Tea duty for the next 20 years !!!! Can you imagine, they actually let it slip whilst in a meeting with our MD (there’s Mondays for you).

This is still a great idea, and you can see the end result of 30 years of photos at The Arrow of Time (link to follow). An Argentinian photographer called Diego Goldberg has taken a photo of all the members of his family on the 13th June every year since 1976, when they are all put together it makes fascinating viewing. The first photos are just of him and his wife, then over the years you see the children appear and grow up. BRILLIANT!

After seeing this we have all decided that we are going to do our own version of this in our Time Capsules.

You can see the arrow of time at http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

Start your own online Time Capsule at The100YearWebSite

Well, here we are. Through feedback and general emails from our users we decided that it would be a good idea to produce a blog for The100YearWebSite.

If you have come here without visiting the site I will give you a quick overview. The100YearWebSite allows users to create their own online Time Capsule where they can save text, web grabs, music/audio, videos and photos. Our mission is to keep these Time Capsules alive, readable and accessible for years to come and future generations to enjoy.

Time Capsules can be public from day 1, password protected for only friends and family or even virtually buried until a time of your choosing in the future. We have spent a lot of time and money ensuring that we future proof the stored information and look forward to following the build up of peoples memories over the years to come.

This aims to be more than just our ramblings, although personal views on all sorts of things may probably creep in. Our aim in producing this blog is to give related inforation and advice to our users. We will be delivering articles and advice, hints and tips for creating Time Capsules, reporting on what is going on in the world of personal digital archiving and generally scouring the world for anything that we think will be of use to those with an interest in preserving their digital memories.

We sincerely hope that this will become a 2 way street and so as always we welcome any feedback you have about the site or sugestions on articles for this area.

To contact us please use the contact us tab which can be found on the site at www.The100YearWebSite.com. We have set up an email account to deal specifically with the blog.

Enjoy the site and while you are at it why not start your own Time Capsule today.

The100YearWebSite Team