In its simplest form, a time capsule is just a letter you write to yourself to be opened in the future. All you need is to write it and set a target date to open it — say, five, ten or twenty years later. No matter how mundane your letter is, you’l…

First of all, I wouldn’t rely on any third-party company. It’s not safe to assume that any company will be alive and well 25 years from now. Especially in the technology business, 25 years is way too long — even for current “safe” brands.

Second, I would try to avoid going digital as much as I can. Will the OS or the programs still be available? Will be DVD readers available? Also, I don’t think digital media is reliable for such long periods of time. An interesting idea might be to send the information in two different media types, to serve as backup. You might for example, include both DVDs and an external HDD with the same information.

Either analog or digital, you need to make sure you take measures to preserve the materials: one link that I found might help you: Builing a Time Capsule – Guidelines for Preserving Materials (pdf).

Let me know how it goes… Good luck!

as i am 43, not too old, but also not young , i want to write down and “send” her my daily thoughts about, me , she and her mother.
sort of daily notebook for her.
i want to write some stories of my and her mother, how and when we felt in love, anecdotes of she now, etc

also i want to to send her some of her /our photos and videos i take almost daily. i have several GBs of this.. i was thinking a way to haver more presence of me when she grows up but in a “digital way” . paper method is good but i was wondering what has 2008 technology bring us to do this,
for example when she was 25 or 30 or whatever age. maybe i have not will be physically at her side.

i would love to have the opportunity to had this for me, a daily or monthly letter from my dad when i was a little kid. also i want to other relatives write letters for she, so she could read then later years, when they passed away even.

now hoy can i do this?
i was thinking to set a gmail account, but they have a 9 months of no login maximun time. after that they delete “dorman” accounts.

i want to say, dont want to login every time to mantain it alive.

i only want to write in a paper in sealed envelope an account an password, and save it in safe place when she grows.

one approach could be buy a domain name for 25 years for example, and a log termn webhosting and setup a email accoutn by myself, but i think is not a safe method or that could be for that long time in uattended way. lots as webhosting providers dissapears on time.
i was thinking that going in to a major brand name, could bring me a little more chance to stay for a long time. ( i mean aol, gmail, yahoo or msnlive although i always have been very clear on this two lasts, as a very bad way to keep anything on their mail servers…)

also im not rich so looking for something that is not driving me on bankrup, i prefer to leave this money to her , (im i latinamerica so 100 bucks here are ONE HUNDRED , you understand)

sorry if this badenglish is very difficult to read., hope to have exposed good the whole idea.

Do you have some advise on how to do this?

The organisation hosting the event posted it to us five years later. There was only one thing on my list that I had not yet completed/achieved but was in process of doing so.