The Digital Time Capsule That Survived Two Decades
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Episode The Digital Time Capsule That Survived Two Decades
Our editor in chief David M. Ewalt revisits a remarkable 20-year experiment: an e-mail time capsule designed to deliver digital messages from the past into the future. What began as a tech project at Forbes evolved into a story of human connection—proving that sometimes it’s friendship, not servers, that keeps information alive across decades.
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