Looking at some of the headlines from 1992 is pretty interesting:
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can’t ban abortions
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there were the Rodney King riots
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Billl Cosby won a kids choice award,
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Jeffrey Dahmer was found sane and guilty of murder
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John Gotti convicted of murder
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Goosebumps by R.L. Stine is first published
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Cartoon Network goes on air
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Sinéad O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL
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Rage Against the Machine releases their first album
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Disney’s Aladdin is released and makes a fuck load of money
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Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter is born
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Russian Federation is formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter is born
She has a song out called “Used to be Young”. She was born in the 90s and has a song out about not being young and crazy any more. WT-actual-F
Everyone over the age of 20 thinks they’re old now.
Everyone older than them responds with some variation of, “Just you wait!”
Always been this way.
I mean if Luke some people i know you Start MDMA with 15 you age preety fast
Are you zooted right now?
They started MDMA at the age of 15
I go out of my way to let people in their late 20s how little time they have left with their body being nice to them.
One day hangovers last 2 days, by 34 you’ll get to find out what part of your body is going to be your main ache, if your lucky like me, you’ll get 2.
Then you’ll just shit yourself for no reason.
She’s 31. Which isn’t that old but older than the “young and crazy” phase I suppose
Billl Cosby won a kids choice award
What else could be there? An R Kelly CD?
Hey, I was born this year!
Did you use a specific website to gather all this info?
I remember someone mentioned a link to watch interesting stuff from the past here on Lemmy 🤔
Nothing specific, just looked through different news sites and found some things I thought were interesting.
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It’s actually just a trap door that when opened spews slime on everyone nearby.
I will accept no other possibility.
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.
Then it initiates false vacuum decay. The perfect end.
This might be the only satisfying and appropriate conclusion without things getting really somber really fast.
On their feet, specifically.
But… You Can’t Do That On Television.
*edited to add link
We did one of these in elementary school. One day while I was back in my hometown, I remembered it and decided to swing by the school to see if they ever did anything with it.
The school was bulldozed.
They put the school rubble in the ground for people to discover in 50 years.
It’s the gift that won’t stop giving: asbestos.
@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe 19 years
@The_Picard_Maneuver Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Dec 18, 2042 at 6:31 AM PST.
The remind bot will remind you in December but it will be opened in April!
Good catch! I wonder if it can do dates…
@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe April 30th, 2042
That’s the reminder to set a reminder for April
@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe 18.2 years
Wat, no!
@remindme@mstdn.social RemindMe 2042-04-30
do you accept pull requests?
Why the downvotes? He did set it to 2 years.
You know what to do: drink water, eat healthy, lift weights, go swimming, quit social media, quit your stressfull job and find the little things that make you happy, you don’t need much.
Just remember not to die smh
Oh fuck I forg-
They forgor 💀
RIP in peas.
The only thing I worry about is the living conditions of middle-aged and elderly people, although I think too much about it now
You fucking monster! Just put me to death.
Why you already know what’s in it
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I don’t.
I’ll be 65, so I hope I’ll still be around.
Ah, a fellow Gen Xer! Whatever.
I thought the damn meme said 2024 until I read this comment and thought you were 64 rn. 🤣
I’m bummed now. Got all excited it was gonna open next year. Gotta wait until I’m 57.
Damn man i didn’t expect for someone so active in so many communities to be your age
He’s not 65 right now
I’m 41. I’ve been active on the Internet since 1994, and will continue to be until I’m dead or the Internet dies. Roll of the dice as to which will happen first I guess.
GenZ here, I’m alive basically out of spite of not wanting to let the world kill me.
GenX here, I have no idea what’s going on with any of this.
Gen2 here I’m still compiling it
Last Generation here, we are all going to die.
Looks like slime
I still think about this capsule every few months. I remember when they sealed it. Items include a game boy and a cassette tape of music.
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 a silly little thing a kid’s TV network did 31 years ago for kids. Calm down.
But all of those kids are adults now. And the kids who will see it opened have no clue what it is.
Yes. And?
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.
Yeah, I understood this asinine point just fine the first time, thanks.
Instead of being a jerk, why don’t you explain how this is a useful time capsule?
Instead of being an ass, why don’t you explain how this is in any shape or form a useful time capsule?
No. I never made that claim so I have no obligation to defend it to some random dipshit on the internet.
It’s probably not. It was created by children’s TV network Nickelodeon.
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.
Holy gatekeeping 🤣
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.
what a sad depressed comment. go crawl back into your hole now
It’s fun. Have some fun.
The lost season 4 script for the Last Airbender. We get to find out that Toph’s kid is Sokkas
I’m still mad about how dirty they did Suki in TLoK. Not even a fucking offhanded mention.
I mean outside of one flashback to Jacone blood bending during his trial is Sokka even mentioned at all?
I genuinely can’t remember if he even had a speaking line in that flashback. They did Sokka sooooo dirty.
I know there’s a lot of Korra enjoyers out there so I’ll admit there must be some appeal to it but their treatment of the original cast is near the top of my list of reasons I hated it.
I think he has one or two, but yeah basically just completely ignores him.
That’s fair, it’s hard for a spin off series to capture the magic when a lot of the love comes from character chemistry. I personally grew up with Avatar on Nick and still found Korra to be enjoyable, but I didn’t have as much of an attachment to ATLA as some people so I didn’t really feel like it was missing that special something.
I like the TLOK cast, minor characters included. The only thing that never sat well with me was the rushed Asami/Korra romance that wasn’t even really hinted at previously as more than a friendship, unless you consider her responding to letters as a specifically romantic situation. Obviously it would be difficult to get away with showing an openly bi/lesbian romance in a nickelodeon cartoon but it felt like they were just trying to imply it for tokenism instead of committing or just not having Korra end up with someone at all.
Some guy 13 years before ATLA was aired
“Did you know Toph and Sokka hooked up?”
“…wut?”
“Yeah, after the fire lord is defeated and everything returns to normal, Toph admits to Sokka that she’s wanted him ever since the bull moose event in book 3.”
“WUT”
Nickelodeon studios is gone. It’s a blue man show now.
Blue Man show left during/after the pandemic. It’s mostly empty now
The capsule is now located at the Nick animation studios. It moved a couple of times.
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Here’s a list of everything inside the time capsule:
Movies, including Home Alone and Back to the Future on VHS CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer and Michael Jackson's Dangerous album A Nintendo Game Boy Rollerblades Reebok Pump sneakers A jar of Gak, at the request of a Dr. Emmett Brown impersonator, who showed up in a real DeLorean and fake hair One of Joey Lawrence’s “Whoa! ’92” hats, which he stopped by to present News reports, including coverage of the AIDS crisis, Desert Storm, and the end of the Soviet Union 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 An issue of Nickelodeon magazine A Nicktoons t-shirt featuring Ren & Stimpy A piece of the Berlin Wall A Barbie doll Pencils A skateboard A baseball Twinkies A stick of bubble gum (though no one seems to know which kind) Photos of things too big (or alive) to fit inside, including bicycles, planes, trains, cars, politicians and celebrities A videotape, which was a recording of the live ceremony, shot by a girl named Vicky who stood onstage to operate the Kid Cam 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 minuteCDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer
Nice.
Only the essentials
No way those movies will still play
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
Not true I’m fattening myself up so my cat can eat me
Might as well stick around for the time capsule opening at this point, then let your cat chow down.
