I am always interested in innovative ideas people come up with to utilize the internet. This is one I wish I had thought of myself. Its The100yearwebsite.
You can archive your photos, articles, important papers, audio or video clips and the The100yearwebsite will keep them in a virtual time capsule for 100 years. When I read about this one of the first things I thought of was that it wouldn’t do anyone any good as technology changes. Think of how useful videos are with a DVD player. They guarantee that they will keep the files updated with the latest technology so that regardless of how technology changes over the next one hundred years, you files will be accessible.
Of course, my next thought was how would you know if they don’t do it! The thing is, you can access your files at anytime with a password if you chose that option. They also offer options up to virtually ‘burying’ the time capsule so that its not accessible until a date you give them to open the files.
Well known personalities and major corporations are already taking advantage of the security of having their documents and files archived in this way. The100yearwebsite is a member of the British Library web archiving program.
You can visit their website at http://www.the100yearwebsite.com/ to get more details of what is offered and visit a demo time capsule to get a good idea of how the system works. You might want a capsule for yourself or as a gift to a friend.
