More Than 1.25 Million People From Almost 200 Countries Chronicle and Share Humanity Around the Globe via Internet Time Capsule
Internet Time Capsule Data Beamed Into Space; Images Projected at Ancient Native American Pueblo
Oct. 26, 2006 09:00 AM
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/26/06 -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will showcase
select contributions from what is expected to be the largest Internet time
capsule in history. Larger than life images from the Yahoo! Time Capsule
are being projected for three nights onto the canyon walls that cradled one
of the world's oldest known communities at the ancient pueblo of Jemez in
New Mexico during a three day celebration event Oct. 25 - Oct. 27th.
Yahoo! Celebration Event
More than fifteen hours of pictures, videos, poems and stories will be
displayed at the historic site and sent into space via a digital laser
light beam from the canyon. This stunning visual event will pay tribute to
the past, present and future of online and offline communities around the
world, and a simultaneous global web cast of the celebration will be
available by searching on Yahoo! for "Time Capsule Celebration."
Since October 10, 2006, people from nearly 200 countries have contributed
more than seventy thousand multimedia submissions to Yahoo!'s electronic
anthropology archive. Examples of current content in the time capsule
include thoughts about "how to end a war one person at a time" from Deepak
Chopra, the first comic book effort from acclaimed director Jon Woo, as
well as tributes to Steve Irwin, the recently deceased "Crocodile Hunter."
In addition, everyday people have contributed meaningful images, such as a
fleeting moment in Egypt when someone created a handprint in the sand
before the wind blew it away, the sonogram of a Portuguese couple's
soon-to-be first son and a man praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
Electronic Anthropology Archive
Submissions to the Yahoo! Time Capsule will be accepted until November 8,
2006 at timecapsule.yahoo.com for a permanent digital archive. Once sealed,
the time capsule's multimedia content will be saved and later opened at
Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. on the company's 25th
anniversary in the year 2020. In addition, copies of the content will be
presented to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings archives in Washington, DC to
be preserved, studied and shared with future generations.
On November 8, 2006, Yahoo! will also donate to seven global charities
whose mission is to heal the world today and tomorrow. Yahoo! will
contribute a total of $100,000 among organizations including the World
Wildlife Fund, International Rescue Committee, Grameen Foundation, UNICEF,
One.org, Seeds of Peace and the International Child Art Foundation.
About Yahoo!: Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the
most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide
online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full
range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with
Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif.
To preview or download broadcast quality video of the time capsule
project/event visit www.TheNewsMarket.com/Yahoo
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