Time capsules are interesting to people of all ages and touch people on a world-wide scale.
Properly prepared time capsules preserve the salient features of history and can serve as valuable reminders of one generation for another. Time capsules give individuals, families and organisations an independent voice to the future. The crypt received its first items in 1938 and was sealed in 1940. The crypt's creator estimated that 1940 fell midway between the start of the first Egyptian time-keeping and 8113. The ITCS estimates that there are approximately 10,000 capsules world-wide, most of them lost.