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Man opens time capsule from 2000 and leaves people shocked with what he finds inside

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Published 15:44 2 Jan 2025 GMT

Man opens time capsule from 2000 and leaves people shocked with what he finds inside

Dylan Schrader opened his Crayola time capsule after 25 years

Britt Jones

Britt Jones

A man opened up his 2000 time capsule for his followers, and what was inside will shock you.

The start of the millennium marked a new time in history; not only was it the first time and only time everyone on Earth would ever see a millennium pass, but it also began the 00s, and you know what trends grew from that time period.

Before that, we were well in the throes of the 90s, where Friends, Fraser, and Seinfeld reigned supreme.

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There were also some well-known brands, foods, and games that people today probably don’t remember, or won’t have been alive to have known about it all.

Thankfully, you’re about to find out about all things 2000s, after X user @FrDylanSchrader wrote a series of tweets about opening his Crayola time capsule after 25 years.

Dylan Schrader opened his 2000 time capsule (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)
Dylan Schrader opened his 2000 time capsule (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)

He shared online: “Amid the millennium craze of late 1999, @Crayola_Capital offered a simple time capsule. My brother and I both made one on the verge of the new year. I originally had the idea of burying it somewhere, but for whatever reason that never happened.”

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Admitting that he ‘ended up carrying it with me into adulthood, from one place to another’, and considered ‘just throwing it out or cracking it open’, he revealed that it contained some off things.

Apparently, there were a lot of AIDS information brochures, data on drugs and alcohol, as well as religion and abstinence.

Well, I did say this was a capsule for 2000, so it’s of its time.

Dylan explained as he opened it and slowly shared the contents: “The first thing I pulled out was this AIDS flier. The sticker on it reminds me of something I had forgotten: the time capsule kit came with stickers prompting you to include different kinds of things. Here are some pamphlets from the late '90s. Abstinence pamphlet. HIV, alcohol, and drugs. The personal information book! I guess I didn't fill the whole thing out.”

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He explained what he put in the capsule (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)
He explained what he put in the capsule (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)

Other things included pictures of his family, a Pokémon advertisement, the ‘Windows key from a keyboard, and Living Faith devotional booklet’.

He also pulled out a coin, envelope, and an ‘impression of a miraculous medal’.

So far, so good.

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Along with his bits and bobs, there was ‘a button from when my mom ran for school board, something about allergies, and some pogs’, as well as a receipt from when he bought an Icee at Walmart.

You’ll notice the price difference right away (it was less than a dollar).

Dylan also wrote a letter to ‘future’ humans and expressed his wish for a free country where religion, speech, and peace thrived, as well as recording music, and a message on a tape.

While most people loved to look back at what the time before 2000 was like in America, others were angry at the simplistic nature of the capsule, and didn’t like what it contained.

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Some people were not pleased that it seemed to be tailored to a lot of religious talk, to which Dylan wrote: “Some of the negative comments are cracking me up. No offense taken. I was a kid. I didn't have any money, and I grew up in a small town. This is apparently what I had to put in the capsule. It's all real.

Dylan also wrote a note (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)
Dylan also wrote a note (Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader)

“Family was actually not very religious back then. Much more so now. I had just started to get interested in Christianity over the course of the previous year or so. The devotional stuff is a reflection of that. Yes, I am a priest today.”

When people asked him why he included the AIDS pamphlet, he shared that he wasn’t ‘sure’, but it’s ‘possible that they were just free materials that could fit in the capsule.

"AIDS was also something that we heard about all the time", he explained.

Featured Image Credit: Twitter/@FrDylanSchrader

Topics: Nostalgia, Twitter, Religion

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

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