Time Capsule found with items from Steve Jobs

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Vixremento

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So you know those containers where they put something in now and then bury it for a few years and then later dig it up to see either what messages you wrote for yourself or just to look at same crazy things from the past that you may have forgotten about?

Well Steve Jobs did this back in 1983 at an International Design Conference in Aspen where he presented on the future of technology. He added in his bits to a time capsule that was going to be dug up in the year 2000 (provided that machines still worked of course with the Y2K bug) but instead somehow the capsule got lost after being buried.

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Way back in the mists of time - that's 1983, for you lot out there too young to remember it first hand - Steve Jobs buried his mouse in a time capsule out in Aspen, as part of the Aspen International Design Conference. It was supposed to be opened in the year 2000, but thanks to redevelopment works the organizers lost track of it. So the Steve Jobs capsule, as it came to be known, remained hidden away until National Geographic's Diggers finally managed to dig it up again.

The lost mouse comes from Jobs' proto-Macintosh, the Lisa, which Jobs claimed he named after his daughter Lisa Nicole Brennan. The computer cost more than $50 million to develop, but was a commercial failure and was soon dropped from Apple's lineup.

The one-button mouse in the capsule is the same one that Jobs used back in 1983, as part of his presentation to the conference. After he finished his speech, he unplugged the mouse from the computer he'd been using and put it in the 15 foot long tube. Also found inside this blast from the past: a Rubik's cube, a Moody Blues eight-track and a six pack of beer. 1983; a time of wonderment.
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What would you put into a time capture now to remember later in 20 years or so? I remember burying a tin in our backyard with some odds and ends when I was much younger...would love to find the tin again (although I'd probably be disappointed with those peanuts and raisins).

Via The Escapist
 
How epic would it be to bury a Snes console with a bunch of cartridges for someone to dig up in 20 years time!

I would think that was awesome!
 
Tom said:
How epic would it be to bury a Snes console with a bunch of cartridges for someone to dig up in 20 years time!

I would think that was awesome!
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I'd like to bury a bunch of photographs of people riding dinosaurs and a repackaging of Inglorious Bastards, making it look like a semi-documentary just to troll the archaeologists 1,000 years from now.
 
HA, and it wasn't even his invention.

Still rad nonetheless. If they auction it, it will fetch a pretty penny.
 
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