• TehWorld@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Time capsules with less than 100 years are the dumbest thing.

    When the same people who sealed it up are around to see it opened, it’s not a “time capsule” anymore than a couple of boxes at the bottom of the pile in my parent’s garage.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a silly little thing a kid’s TV network did 31 years ago for kids. Calm down.

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        11 months ago

        But all of those kids are adults now. And the kids who will see it opened have no clue what it is.

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            Like the guy said, time capsules are pointless if the same people who made them are opening them. The kids who grew up aren’t kids anymore and the current kids won’t give a crap. Old stuff is lost on them. So basically this is for adults even though they have no personal connection to the time capsule.

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              11 months ago

              Yeah, I understood this asinine point just fine the first time, thanks.

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                11 months ago

                Instead of being a jerk, why don’t you explain how this is a useful time capsule?

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                  11 months ago

                  Instead of being an ass, why don’t you explain how this is in any shape or form a useful time capsule?

                  No. I never made that claim so I have no obligation to defend it to some random dipshit on the internet.

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          11 months ago

          It’s fun to reminisce on what the world was like when you were a kid. This is literally for those same kids, now that they’re adults. You may not hold any nostalgia but surely you can see the appeal of it.

          Further, kids who do see it being opened will find it interesting. I was born right on the tail end of dial up and VHS but I remember thinking mums records and cassettes were, like, the coolest.

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      It’s more of a nostalgia thing for the kids who were there. The time capsule predates the web so they didn’t realize how easy it would be to just look up all the things that were in it. Instead they would open it in 50 years and everybody would say, “oh, I remember that thing” and have fond memories of their childhood.