The Time Capsule That Went Through A Wall ...

Samrobb asks: "My wife and I are just finishing remodeling a 150-year-old farm house, and as it turns out, we have some dead space behind one of the walls in the wiring closet. We'd like to seal up something in there for the next owner to discover -- kind of a personal time capsule. I was thinking of pictures, a newspaper, that sort of thing, until my wife suggested burning the deCSS source on a CD and tossing it in :-) That got me wondering -- what else could we put in there to make someone a hundred years down the road go 'What the ...???' Any suggestions?" Man! I wish I could find a house with a lot of little crannies like these!

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A cross-section of "Geek Life"

[Cid Highwind]

How about throwing in:
1: A twinkie (they'll last forever)
2: A can of JOLT cola
3: Printouts (on acid-free paper) of the day's User Friendly and/or Penny Arcade strips
4: A printout of the /. main page
5: MP3s of some current music
6: The Bill Of Rights, the DMCA and the DeCSS lawsuits (the contradictions will have legal scholars puzzled for years!)
7: Any .com stock certificate
8: A gun (they'll probably be illegal by the time the capsule is opened)
9: A hard drive (or ZIP drive if you're short on $$) containing Linux, GCC and the source code to PGP, GPG, and any other good "stong" crypto.
10: Documentation of the EIDE or SCSI interface for the drive.