KEEPING TIME

Are you looking for something positive and fun to do while the nights are drawing in?

Forget organising the photo album, and take things one step further. You can now curl up on an autumn evening and argue about what to put into your very own time capsule!

You can store photos, audio, video footage, copies of web pages and text, and save the whole lot for up to 100 years. Imagine family in 3007 wondering what their great-great-great grandma got up to a century back. Forget ‘Who do you think you are’ and trawling through Genes Reunited for clues...

If you’ve just had a baby, you could bury the capsule until his or her eighteenth birthday for a really inventive birthday pressie, or keep your capsule open for a century so that generations after you can have a glimpse into life as it is today. You can also choose to password protect your capsule so only friends and family can see it.

The launch of The100YearWebsite on Monday September 17th 2007 has given everyone the opportunity to do just that. For a small one off fee of £20.00 customers can buy a capsule for themselves ...or as a gift.

Online time capsule

The concept of an online time capsule was dreamt up by entrepreneur Richard Brooks who saw the appeal of having a method of keeping memories alive for a life-time, by taking a high resolution master copy of all documents and media added to every capsule.

The100YearWebsite ensures that all documentation will be automatically updated to the very latest technology as it arrives. This means there is no risk that just as the traditional tape cassette is pretty much extinct... any media saved in a capsule will ever be lost through advances in technology. If the capsule is bought as a present then you can also have a metal branded capsule with a personalized certificate of ownership and log in details sent to yourself or directly to the recipient.

All for charity

It is not just individuals who can purchase their own capsule, charities such as Oxfam GB and Amnesty International UK will be releasing their own capsules in the near future. 5% of all revenue from The100Year Website will be split between both charities.

Kerry Moscogiuri, Director of Marketing at Amnesty International UK said;

"What we'd really like to see in 100 years time is a world where human rights are truly respected around the world. Certainly our capsule will highlight all the work that Amnesty and our members are doing to help make this a reality - from hard-hitting campaigns to stop violence against women, to massive awareness-raising events like the Secret Policeman's Ball."

Facts and figures

The factoriser section of the website offers a wealth of historic and present day facts and figures, making it the perfect tool for schools wanting a fun yet informative method of enlightening pupils about life in the year 2007. St Hughes School (Ware) and St Thomas Moore School (Letchworth) are amongst the first schools to have started their very own school capsule.

What would you put in yours?

Tell us on the forum: http://positively-testing.com/positivity/viewtopic.php?t=1143