I was watching Nickelodeon in the 1980s. Pinwheel, You Can’t Do That on Television, Turkey TV, Out of Control, Mad Movies… Nickelodeon was great back then. The concept of green slime, which Nickelodeon has claimed ownership of, came from You Can’t Do That on Television, which was a Canadian show. Alanis Morrisette was on it as a child.
Could be. I’m on the official forums too. It’s very laid back, basically troll-free and everyone is friendly. Even if I didn’t like MST, I’d love those forums. Where else am I going to spend hours posting AI generated pictures of Godzilla doing ridiculous things?
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.
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.
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.
Hey bud, if you’re constantly seeing nothing but assholes everywhere on both reddit and Lemmy, you might want to consider that it’s actually you that are kind of acting like an asshole.
Well I never said that but I’m not alone in thinking lemmy is becoming increasingly full of intolerant argumentative assholes. This is being discussed frequently in many posts and comments lately. The guy who engaged me was trying to be argumentative and not have a discussion, that much is clear.
Honestly I think Reddit is better in this regard, despite what I said. Usually you only get the pricks in certain communities.
You can have any opinion you like just the same as others can have an opinion about the comments you post.
Why do time capsules have to be longer than one lifetime? Doesn’t time pass whether or not those people died by the open date?
It’s for the people who were there or who watched it on TV. I’m looking forward to seeing the old stuff from when I was a kid. That’s the whole point of the thing.
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.
This would be the day that I die. And it comes out with some serious force like Katy Perry getting absolutely blasted to the floor? But the person who opens it is some old mayor or something. My entire life would have a point.
Here’s a list of everything inside the time capsule:
<span style="color:#323232;">Movies, including Home Alone and Back to the Future on VHS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer and Michael Jackson's Dangerous album
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A Nintendo Game Boy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Rollerblades
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Reebok Pump sneakers
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A jar of Gak, at the request of a Dr. Emmett Brown impersonator, who showed up in a real DeLorean and fake hair
</span><span style="color:#323232;">One of Joey Lawrence’s “Whoa! ’92” hats, which he stopped by to present
</span><span style="color:#323232;">News reports, including coverage of the AIDS crisis, Desert Storm, and the end of the Soviet Union
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Books, including a world atlas, history book, comic book, phone book, the Orlando TV Guide for the week of April 30, 1992, and a copy of the Book of Endangered Species
</span><span style="color:#323232;">An issue of Nickelodeon magazine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A Nicktoons t-shirt featuring Ren & Stimpy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A piece of the Berlin Wall
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A Barbie doll
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Pencils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A skateboard
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A baseball
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Twinkies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A stick of bubble gum (though no one seems to know which kind)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Photos of things too big (or alive) to fit inside, including bicycles, planes, trains, cars, politicians and celebrities
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A videotape, which was a recording of the live ceremony, shot by a girl named Vicky who stood onstage to operate the Kid Cam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The camera recording the tape, which appears to have been unplanned—Mike O’Malley and Joey Lawrence both looked baffled about how to remove the tape from the camera, so the whole setup was tossed in at the last minute
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I know we’re only a bit over halfway there, but it’s weird and slightly disappointing how a good portion of those things haven’t changed much. As if they expected the change from 1992 to 2042 to be as drastic as the change from 1942 to 1992.
Bet those sneakers will sell for a fortune, if they don’t land in a museum
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