"Future Generations Will Gape in Awe At Our Achievements!" predicts project founder.

Amid much celebration, SiliconValley3000!, the 1000 year time capsule/preservation project got underway today at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California.

"The idea behind it is that future generations will want to know about how we created all of the wonderful technology that we're creating now, and they'll scramble to learn as much about Silicon Valley in the last part of the 20th century as they can. Every E-Mail and corporate document from 1981-1999 has been saved, as well as a lot of older historical papers from the 1960s, which have been digitally re-created. People in the future are just going to eat this up!" Said Justin Wind, the project founder.

Generations in the future will thrill to stories of our present; stories about the early theories of the "Galactic Network" concept, and the start of ARPANET. From Leonard Kleinrock's first published papers on packet swapping to SGI's latest business plan to turn around it's business, future school kids will gratefully look back on us, thanking us for saving all of these thousands of terrabytes of information.

"Let me give just one example of what we've wisely saved." said Justin Wind, opening a 5 year old Word Perfect document. "Memo: PCB01 needs new drive.. we need at least 400 more megs of room so we can add the latest Marketing Research image for the new Dell Pentium 90 machines."

"That kind of exciting piece of information makes all other human history seem boring in comparison!" commented Mike Zastrow, archive historian. "Kids in the future aren't going to want to read about wars or what country conquered what. They're going to want to know about what happened here, in Silicon Valley, right now."

Lucky kids! Schoolkids in the future
will gawk in amazement at our genius.

The huge digital time capsule was erected today, replacing the "Telegraph! An Earth-Shattering Technology For All Time!" exhibit, or some such rubbish.