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- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'll probably be included in my own spam filter by then
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4oh damn future me just replied back
in 25 years he says
all email must be cc'd to the dept of homeland security.
music and movies are sold per note and per frame basis.
poor kids buy every other note/frame.. it is alittle choppy but still ok.
All of it is uni directional so that only one person can watch/hear at a time.
After your done listening a beam is emited that erases the experience from your mind. ADvertised as "see it like it was the first time all over again". You can pay more to rent the experience/memory for a few years. AS political correctness changes the memory may be altered to adhere to new standards.
RIAA is a political party
George Bush was reelected for the tenth time 51% to 49% - ShangHaiKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah this is really cool, I'm sending myself a to do list...
1.Get Fat
2.Grow Mullet
3.Grow Beard
4.Buy robot slave
Hopefully I will of accomplished this in 2025. - BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did 5 years. 10 or 20 years is way too long. We won't even have email in 20 years.
- Akia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Capsule email content:
" Guess this actually worked since it's being read right now. Now go to digg.com (if it's still there) and digg the article now that it has proven itself. http://digg.com/software/Leave_yourself_a_secret_note_for_the_year_2025 "
Until then... no digg yet. - baloniaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why not just use this? It can go up to 30 years
http://www.futureme.org/ - c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if gmail will be out of beta by then?
by the time I get the time capsule email, Forbes will have caught on to the blogging fad... - CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dear future self,
Are you still a virgin? I hope not.
sincerely,
Your past self from one year ago - fox, on 04/11/2009, -0/+1I bet it gets tagged as spam....
- Flyngwalrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe one more person can say they won't have the same email address in 20 years.
I think this is a cool idea, regardless of people's reservations. The chance of success may be slim, but jeez it would be cool if it worked, and I'd say it's worth the time (a minute) and the price (nothing at all). - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i sent myself one saying "got laid yet?"
- scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ok all those whining about putting your e-mail on someone's server.. THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES www.sneakemail.com and with that you can even update which e-mail address it goes to..
and.. no digg I'm with the people who say that e-mail won't be the same in 25 years and whoever is hosting this thing probably won't be around anymore either - ipunchstrangers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did this in high school. Freshman year the teacher made us write a note to ourselves for us to read when we're senoirs, amazing how much you change over a few years.
- camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A month might be more realistic
- sbostedor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I filled one out but just put in my own SMTP bounce message .. because DUH!
In 20 years, email will be like 8 track cassettes. This is where low-tech reigns.
Go get yourself a pen and paper, then write a note and bury it in the woods. Twenty years from now, go dig it up. Tada!
;) - .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old...
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, you might want to do that next time!
- JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^But all the woods are getting chopped down to build new houses.
- JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah that's almost like leaving your dirty laundry laying around for everybody to see when people come over to your house.
- macdaddydwj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so you're saying I should pick up my laundry?
- unclejesse0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is a very cool idea.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to write myself and request that if time travel has been invented I come back and give me some job advice. I'll let you know if a few minutes if I came back. lol
- tj9991, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Dear self, why did you waste so much time on digg.com?"
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually e-mail itself has been in high debate the past couple years, many including the grandmother of e-mail saying an new standard in e-mail needs to be created, built for security, among many other things. They have also suggested that e-mail be completely scrapped and redone, as it was merely a small project for personal use, not intended or designed for the masses.
- mjoyo129, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The idea is cool yet somehow...stupid at the same time
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I doubt the human race will still be alive.
Google Robot Beta will have killed us all and taken over earth by then. - nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DUPE
http://digg.com/technology/The_E-Mail_Time_Capsule - macdaddydwj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can someone say.. look where you copy and paste, before you hit submit
- JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well I had the same AOL email address for 10 years, never thought I would have it that long. But if you receive your email in 20 years and yahoo or msn or aol or whoever you have are not around, where will it go?
- Seng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ugh, wrong quote ;)
Should be:
Howdy, Stranger! This is Hauser. If things have gone wrong, I'm talking to myself, and *you've* got a wet towel wrapped around your head... - buryme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"can someone say.. look where you copy and paste, before you hit submit" "posted by macdaddydwj"
That was awesome...I am still laughing, sorry can't help it. As I was reading your lengthly post, I started wondering why in the world you'd want everyone to know all of that...by then end I figured out that you must've screwed up. Even you have to admit, that's pretty funny. - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is not a question of whether you will have the same e-mail address in twenty-years, but rather if the current insecure e-mail standard will exist in twenty-years considering the exponential growth of the IT industry. It is very likely that e-mail, one of the oldest mediums of communication over the Internet, will undergo its own revolution, like many Internet communication intermediates, and be revised or just as likely become obsolete and be replaced by a new medium of Internet communication.
- outlawed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it's brilliant.
I wrote a message about everything going on in my life and everything I'm doing at the moment. I copied and pasted it to be sent in 1 year, then 3, 5, 10, and 20. Just to see. - theavidgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kool idea, no application.
- Darth_tater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0idk..... if its spam im gona laugh. i just sent my friends a TON of messages...
we shall see - kwreid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In 25yrs My grandkids wont even know what email is/was.
I'm trying to imagine myself getting this time capsule when I'm online connected via my 4Gbit Earth-net connection through my spinal-jack. - f1gm3nt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Neat idea, but I change my e-mail on an almost monthly DB. Thanks spam!
- chriis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Forbes will not survive the revolution. ;)
- Play, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think I've ever used the same e-mail account for more than five years, but cool idea.
- iMatt711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm considering sendng a threatening message to myself with information only i would know. Then tomorrow tell myself it was a joke. What am i gonna do hunt myself down and kill myself?
- frontbrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Neat gimmick idea, surely someone has thought of this before like 5-10 years ago....
Damn I'll be 45 in 2025, not that old but it seems older when your 20. - leetsauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/18/communication-networks-language-cx_mn_de_comm05land.html
- beaver2672, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I sent it to my Ohio State address, which I know will be around for awhile, dono about 20 years though...
- thedazman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i think i am going to send emails to all of my friends, probably not for twenty years. since i don't think many people will have their emails... (i will)... it might also be fun to email some corporate addresses as well...
- Comsamvimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had the same email address for about 7.5 years, but mainly because I'm too lazy, and I'm attached to my name. But I doubt I'll still have it in 20 years.
- iFindout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think so. I change and forget email addresses like a chameleon. But it's a nice way for forbes.com to collect free spam targets.
- aprocter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I sent myself a thought provoking email for next year. It's weird to imagine what will have happened to make you who you will become next year. Eesh.
- lowbot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ill be more impressed when someone is willing to do this and guarantee service after 2038.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Internet e-mail hasn't disappeared in the past 20 years and doesn't look to be going away anytime soon. Your e-mail address is more likely to change than the Internet e-mail network disappearing.
- ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We did this in middle school and got our notes back the senior year of high school. Back then, I wrote that my favorite song was Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise... ugghhh
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