As time goes by, there's a 98% chance for generations coming after us, won't know most of the trends and digital lifestyle going on during our time. It's also possible for us to forget our trends and how our lives are relatively academic wonder of recent times.
As we all know, technology is evolving by day. Lots of new digital life styles are coming up and some trends are slowly dying away out of the internet. In the early 2000's when telephone was introduced, everyone as at that time saw it as a new digital innovation, which was actually a trend as at that time, everyone wants to use a telephone. Today telephone is considered an old school or something that is of no relevance.
Today on one talks about using a telephone, i can confidently say only 30% of this generation knows how to use a telephone.
Digital Time capsule
There's a way to ensure that our online heritage is well preserved for the future generations to come, this way is to create a digital time capsule.
A digital time capsule is a virtual collections of documents, artifacts, memes and other important digital items that represent a specific time, it could be either ancient and recent times. As a lover of memes , I'd make sure my time capsule is filled with a good amount of quality memes.
Making things clear, there's a reason behind creating a digital time capsule. Creating a digital time capsule is to preserve an event in the past or in recent times for future generations to come.
Now here's a list of things I'd add to my digital time capsule if I'm opportune to create one.
First I'd add some social media good, bad and ugly side of the internet. Our most interactive apps, X ( twitter), tiktok, Instagram Reels and Facebook posts. This would give the future generations to come a sense of how we interacted with one another online.
Next up is memes: Like i mentioned earlier, I'm a lover of memes , so I'm definitely adding funny memes and lots of funny videos that made me laugh. This particular list is gonna be so long, i have watched a lot of videos that made me go "wow, this is hilarious". Lots of tiktok challenges and short funny videos. Adding these things to my digital time capsule, would show how entertainment and humor evolved online.
Not leaving emojis behind. Emojis are a way to express how we're feeling at the moment, I'm an emoji lover. Emojis have funny expressions sometimes, I'm definitely adding emojis to the time capsule. These would help the future generation to come, knowing how we use emojis to express how we feel when chatting or sending a text.
This digital time capsule is not only about fun and games, I'm definitely adding some really serious stuffs like, some news highlights, how political elections are being conducted, also some sad events like natural disasters are war between some countries. Documenting these events in the digital time capsule, would provide a context of how life was in our time and a sense of what was happening around the world in our time.
Creating a digital capsule and documenting all important information, would help to preserve our online heritage for future generations to come. This is gonna be a virtual treasure for the up coming generations, giving them a fascinating window into the past, even if it's more than 50 years to come.
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