Challenge #04350-K332: A Preserved Year

An archivaas finds a large box from before the Shattering. In the large box are several diaries, records, and a hand-crank, antique, player. The children of the family had buried their dairies in the time capsule. The parents had added to it a player and records. Music not heard in millennia now graced ears once more, words of children still of school age, seen on the pages happily. -- Anon Guest

Time capsules were an absolute joy to the Archivaas. They were snapshots, not just of a space in time, but also of the people who thought such things were valuable. The official ones were, in the grand scope of things, relatively bland. The personal ones, the accidental ones... those were the ones Archivaas drooled over.

And Archeologist Dern had just found one under the remains of a barbecue patio from the late twentieth century.

Her breath caught. Vintage tupperware, the most indestructable container of the time. More robust, even, than the cookie tin of their historical memes. A large hemisphere with a lid, buried lid-sign down to resist the weight of the things above it. Someone had engraved the words Smith family memories 1976 in the base.

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