Recently a 101-year-old message in a bottle was found off the coast of Germany. The bottle was tossed into the Baltic Sea back in 1913 and was discovered this year by fishermen (pictured above) who then donated it to a local museum. Just about every news outlet is saying that it’s the oldest message in a bottle ever found. Except that it’s probably not.
Back in 1966 a woman in North Phoenix, Arizona sealed a time capsule in the wall of her home. Betty Klug, then 33, didn’t tell her husband nor her two kids about the capsule. It remained a secret until contractors working on the home recently discovered the time-traveling treasure. Fair warning: If you’re not a robot, you should probably get some tissues handy.
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This week we have an incredibly old glass capsule that was smashed open in London, a grunge-era capsule unearthed at a Washington McDonald’s, and a huge new capsule in Florida that may shock you.
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This week in our round-up of time capsule news we have a 20-year-old McDonald’s capsule that only 90s kids will understand, a "time barrel" in Maine, and kids in the UK who learn that we eventually get old and die.
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You might recall back in September of last year when we mentioned that a time capsule buried in Aspen, Colorado back in 1983 had been discovered. The time capsule was originally supposed to be unearthed in 2000, but no one could find it. The cast and crew from the TV show called Diggers set about trying to locate the time capsule and were successful.
The episode of the show with what has come to be known as the Steve Jobs Time Capsule will air on February 25 on the National Geographic Channel. In case you forgot, the capsule was buried as part of the International Design Conference in 1983. Jobs was on hand at the show and tossed the mouse from his Lisa computer into the capsule.
The people who dug the capsule up say that there was a strong smell of mold inside indicating that some damage likely occurred to the content. The good news is that the Lisa mouse and other items had been sealed in a plastic bag.
I wonder what sort of other items were found inside.
I really don’t care for those reality TV shows where people walk around with metal detectors looking for junk. Most of them end up turning up crappy old coins and cans. But I have to show props to the guys on NatGeo’s Diggers for digging up something epic for once. They managed to find a long lost time capsule buried with stuff from Steve Jobs way back in 1983.
Jobs and other attendees filled the 30-foot-long time capsule with all sorts of stuff after the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado some 30 years ago. Most notable among their contributions was Steve Jobs’ mouse from an Apple Lisa he used for the day’s presentation – which apparently is still in mint condition. Bet that’ll fetch some serious buckage at auction.
Despite being known as the “Steve Jobs Time Capsule,” there were many other contributors to the capsule, then known as the Aspen Time Tube. Among them there’s an original Rubik’s Cube, a six pack of Ballantine Ale, some name tags, and a Moody Blues 8-track tape. I’m not sure what the deal is with all the aluminum foil pie tins though.
While they haven’t released images of everything inside, I’m sure you’ll be able to see everything they found in the capsule on an upcoming episode of Diggers on the National Geographic Channel.
[via C|Net]
As promised
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The skyscraper? The hauteur router? The dapper WAP? All reasonable nicknames were considered, but in the end, Apple’s sticking with “AirPort Extreme.” The newest base station — the one introduced alongside the company’s Haswell-infused MacBook Air at WWDC — takes on a new look and gains 802.11ac support, but that’s not what you’re here for. You’re here for two reasons: first, you want to see this thing reverse engineered, and second, you want to get an idea of just how repairable it is. The gurus over at iFixit have done their usual teardown, offering up a plethora of lovely JPGs and settling on a respectable 8 out of 10 on the Repairability Index. Eager to learn more? Give that source link below a soft tap… with the key word being soft.
Filed under: Networking, Apple
Source: iFixit
Apple announced a new Airport Extreme earlier this week, and iFixit has already torn it apart. The good news? It’s a hacker’s dream.
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I’ve got some family shit going on right now, and it’s making me nostalgic. The memories floating to the surface are overwhelmingly of my sister and my parents. But right there along with my family are the times I spent with technology—a surprisingly prominent cast member in the movie inside my mind. More »
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