Internet Time Capsules Available

The 100 Year Website:

Time capsule meets the internet!  

The100yearwebsite.com is a great way to gather together your pictures, video and audio clips, thoughts and text in a virtual time capsule which we will keep safe for you, for the next 100 years!!!

Choose to let others experience your capsule from day one, or bury it to be revealed at a future date that you can choose – perhaps a special anniversary, or any other date during the next century. 

So why not make a start and create your own contribution to history for future generations to enjoy! A capsule costs just £20 set up fee. Future hosting is then free.

This is a pretty cool idea.  We have moved towards digital lives.  The cost savings involved in dgital photography has resulted in people taking thousands and thousands of photographs that they would not have taken if film development costs were a factor. The problem with this massive accumulation of digital media is that the proverbial "average user"  is prone to data loss. 

People often find themselves performing a system restore at the behest of a tech support agent.  If your photos are on that drive they are now gone.  Many people feel they have covered their asses by burning off the photos and videos to CD or DVD.  Rather than give my own opinion of this, lets ask anyone reading this who once owned a Jazz or Zip drive about the problems with technology changes  as applied to long term data storage.  While I do store alot of data on DVD, I fully expect that there will come a time when those discs are useless on my primary workstation.

For only 20 pounds why not let someone else handle that problem for you?  Their FAQ says "We maintain an archived “high quality” original copy, and a compressed viewing copy. When the time comes to move to the next generation of viewer, we will run a program through the site, take a new copy of the original data, and replace the old viewing copy. This is called an active management system and ensures that we move along with new technology."

    I have a box of family photos that go back to sepia print times next to my desk.  I started a project of scanning them at one point but the potental headaches involved in truly long term storage of the digital version pf the photos convinced me not to bother – yet.  Seeing this solution has decided me that I should go through and pick out the most important items and get them into a time capsule of my own.