AOL Members Record Legacy for Future Generations in America Online Millennium Time Capsule.DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIURE)--Dec. 30, 1999 World's Largest Time Capsule to Close at Midnight on December 31, Will Be Sealed and Preserved Until the Year 3000 America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive service, today announced its "last call" for members to participate in the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Millennium Time Capsule, the largest time capsule in the world. In less than 48 hours, AOL will seal and preserve the online time capsule, not to be opened until the next millennium milestone -- the year 3000. To date, in celebration of the new millennium, more than 40,000 AOL members have created and submitted entries to the AOL Time Capsule and recorded their legacy for future generations. At AOL Keyword: Time Capsule, members can submit up to 100 words of text and also have the option of linking to their AOL Hometown homepage. AOL will accept entries up to midnight, December 31, 1999, and promises to preserve them by the best means possible, to be opened at the end of the 3rd millennium. "The interactive medium is changing the way people communicate and how they want to mark important milestones in their lives," said Jonathan Sacks Not to be confused with Yonason Sacks. Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. , Senior Vice President and General Manager of the AOL service. "We consulted with experts, including the International Time Capsule Society The International Time Capsule Society is an organization dedicated to tracking the world's time capsules to ensure that those that are created are not lost. Along with their database of time capsules, they have published a list of "most desired" time capsules that have been lost , to create a time capsule worthy of our more than 20 million members. The AOL Millennium Time Capsule was designed to provide them with the easiest and most convenient way to reach out to future generations." The AOL Millennium Time Capsule will be preserved by two redundant methods: perpetual reproduction and CD ROM encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. . AOL will preserve the time capsule online by means of perpetual reproduction so that as long as AOL evolves and changes its content with the evolution of the online medium, the time capsule entries will be updated and preserved as well. In addition, AOL will also preserve the time capsule entries offline via CD ROM and hard drive encapsulation. AOL's Countdown to the Millennium and Millennium Party In addition to the AOL Time Capsule, AOL's Countdown to the Millennium special (AOL Keyword: Millennium) offers members the latest millennium news and updates, a Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 Survival Kit with Y2K bug updates, tips for protecting investments and money, and travel ideas for 2000, plus a Millennium Store featuring a wide variety of merchandise to commemorate and celebrate the millennium. AOL Live is also hosting its first-ever global New Year's Eve party, which will take AOL members around the world to celebrate the New Year 12 times in 12 cities in 20 hours. AOL members the opportunity to usher in the new century interactive style, complete with Web Cam, live chats, polls, and slideshows. Beginning at 7:30am, ET on New Year's Eve day and ending at 3:00am, ET New Year's day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. , correspondents from AOL's international services and AOL's Digital City locations will be live on the scene in Australia, Japan, Germany, France, London, Brazil, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Canada, Washington D.C., Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles as the clock strikes midnight. The AOL Millennium Party is available at AOL Keyword: Millennium Party. About America Online, Inc. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 20 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. , Digital City Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers; AOL MovieFone; Digital Marketing Services; Spinner.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , Winamp and SHOUTcast. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. |
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