Yahoo!'s Internet time capsule project

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has launched what it is calling the "world's largest time capsule ever in history." No small words there, yes? The Yahoo! project wants to achieve the most prolific collection of photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, etc. into a massive time capsule collection of life as it stands in 2006.

Yahoo! is wanting to create the largest snapshot of all life in all countries and cultures around the world to preserve what it meant to live in 2006. I respect that -- one of the great uses of the global computer network that most of us enjoy and makes this blog possible is being corralled for use in a very exciting way here.

Said Jerry Yang, one of Yahoo!'s co-founders, "One in two Internet users around the world use Yahoo!, and we are proud to document this moment in history with them in celebration of the global online community."

It's pretty massive when 50% of the world's population of Internet users use Yahoo! in some shape or form (not sure where Yang retrieved that stat), but with Yahoo!'s global presence, this new project is indeed rather innovative for such a highly visible company like Yahoo! -- and it sounds like something Google would have done, which intrigues me.