From Boing Boing comes a post about a website, futureme.org, which lets you send an email to yourself (or conceivably, someone else) in the future. Here is the email I sent:
Dear FutureMe,Worried about the privacy implications of this website, but I guess you would know better. Are you still paranoid about privacy? I hope so. Can't wait till PastMe.org comes about! Anyway, lots of love, and here's hoping you have a flying car.
At 11:52 on March 8, 2005, Martey wrote:
The link to my purported email message to myself in the future leads to someone else's email. Even more annoying, I no longer remember when I am suppose to receive the message (March 26, 2005? Or maybe 2009? Or did I opt for 2014?).
Luckily, Google comes to the rescue. The link has been changed.
At 3:47 on June 10, 2005, Martey wrote:
Since the links to the FutureMe emails seem to shift regularly, I am going to just remove the link instead of changing it every couple of months.
Oh, and if you are interested, I did receive the email on March 26, 2005.
At 9:30 on August 19, 2006, sarah wrote:
check out Time Netsule - it's a real time capsule and doesn't have the email/link problems.