The E-Mail Time Capsule
Hmm, this is an interesting idea from Forbes.com:
It brings up some issues, though, some of which they address in the article.
- Will your email provider still be around?
- Will you still have the same email address?
- Will you still check that email address?
- Will email itself still be used?
- Will Forbes and the other companies still exist and be interesting in this project?
- Will the Internet still exist in a state that will handle email?
- Will you still be alive then?
- Will anyone still be alive then?
Those are just a few questions that popped into my head, without thinking about it too much. I’m going to try it and have a message sent to me at each of the intervals. Not sure what I’ll write yet, though…


Nov 7th, 2006 at 21:03:13
So what did you end up writing to yourself?
Nov 7th, 2006 at 21:17:55
That’s for me to know
I did receive the email, though. Wasn’t quite as surprising as I thought it would be (or was hoping it would be). A year isn’t that long ago…