Slash Gear,
Shane McGlaun, Sep 23rd 2013
Way back in
1983, a time tube was buried in conjunction with the 1983 International Design
Conference in Aspen, Colorado. When the tube was buried it was supposed to have
been dug up in 2000 and the contents revealed to the public. However, changes
in the landscape meant that the tube was lost.
One of the
most interesting items stuffed into that time tube came from Steve Jobs. Jobs
put a mouse from Apple’s first mass-market computer called the Lisa inside the
tube along with hordes of other material from other people who attended the
conference. A television show that will air on the National Geographic Channel
called Diggers discovered the tube recently.
For now,
the producers of the television show are withholding most of the details of
what was discovered inside the time tube. They have teased about Jobs’ mouse
being discovered, but have offered no photographs of the device. Presumably,
they’re withholding the details on the most interesting objects until the
episode airs sometime in early 2014.
We can tell
from the photographs offered is that someone stuffed a six-pack of beer inside
and there are a huge number of plastic bags with personal items placed inside
as well. We can also see in the photograph a number of what appear to be name
badges from conference attendees and a bunch of little cards that say “The
Future Is Not What It Used to Be” which was the conference title in 1983.
Steve Jobs
addressed the attendees at this particular conference in 1983 with a talk some
believe predicted some of Apple’s current successes such as the iPad along with
wireless networking and the Apple App store. A few other items that the people
who found the 13-foot-long capsule have noted were inside include an
eight-track tape of The Moody Blues, a Sears Roebuck catalog, and a Rubik’s
Cube.
SOURCE: National Geographic
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