Yahoo Time Capsule

Yahoo starts clock on Earth time capsule

Yahoo has set out to capture life on Earth in digital formats for a time capsule to be buried in Silicon Valley as well as beamed into the cosmos from Mexico.

The internet giant invites people worldwide to contribute pictures, videos, songs, ideas, drawings or anything else they could digitise for a "first-ever electronic anthropology project" to document human life in 2006.

Submissions could be uploaded via the internet to regionalised "Yahoo Time Capsule" websites.

Suggested topics included love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, hope, and "you".

"You don't have to be a gadget hound or tech savvy to know how to do these things any more. Who knows what it will be like in 10 years?"

Yahoo planned to open the time capsule when it celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020.

"Even though it might seem like a short future out, I can only imagine how we will look to our future selves given how rapidly things are changing," Srinivasan said.