The only thing keeping us Millennials going at this point

Looking at some of the headlines from 1992 is pretty interesting:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can't ban abortions
there were the Rodney King riots
Billl Cosby won a kids choice award,
Jeffrey Dahmer was found sane and guilty of murder
John Gotti convicted of murder
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine is first published
Cartoon Network goes on air
Sinéad O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL
Rage Against the Machine releases their first album
Disney's Aladdin is released and makes a fuck load of money
Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter is born
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.
  
  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?
  https://youtu.be/xIiNbBQM_Go?t=35
- 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.

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.
- 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
- @ThePicardManeuver 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
  
  @tostiman Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Dec 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM PST.

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-
- 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
- I don't.

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

Looks like slime

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.

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.

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?
- 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"

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 &amp; 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 minute

CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer
Nice.
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
No way those movies will still play

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.

the camera being included is the best bit

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.

That looks like a strange coin from destiny.

Oops, all slime!

Did you also recently watch the recent Bright Sun Films video about Nickelodeon Studios?
- There's at least 2 of us!

LFG.

I bookmarked this post so I'll remember to look at it in 19 years

I didn't even know Nickelodeon was around in '92. I always thought of them as being very much a '00s channel, maybe founded in the mid-to-late '90s.
Amazing that they were not only around, but old enough to feel it made sense to do a time capsule then.
- Ah, the youth of today...
  I was watching Nickelodeon in the 1980s. Pinwheel, You Can't Do That on Television, Turkey TV, Out of Control, Mad Movies... Nickelodeon was great back then. The concept of green slime, which Nickelodeon has claimed ownership of, came from You Can't Do That on Television, which was a Canadian show. Alanis Morrisette was on it as a child.
  
  I heard that!
  
  Turkey TV was the shit. And Mad Movies... No wonder I became such an MST3K fan.
- Started in 1979

- Millennials weren’t alive when this was made 😂
  You think there weren't any millennials alive in 1992? lol

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.
- 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.
- It's fun. Have some fun.
- what a sad depressed comment. go crawl back into your hole now