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Have you ever wondered how humanity will look back on us in a thousand years?

I don’t mean digging up bones, fossilised iPods or time capsules. I mean looking back on the internet as we know it.

With the volume of content being published on the internet everyday it would give a definitive, if time consuming, look at the 21st century. Though, they could probably get through it three times as fast if they skipped the adult content.

The internet archaeologists can pass up the Indiana Jones whip and relax with their micro brain implanted computers while they scroll the depths of the internet to learn what we were like. From 4chan to Wikipedia all of the knowledge of the 21st century will be at their fingertips. All that without dusting off a single bone, bet the current archaeologists are jealous.

School children will glide around virtual museums with internet pages regarded as rudimentary oddities. You know how shocked we feel looking at the original mobile phone? That’s how they will feel looking at the internet. The museum gift shop will probably be selling USB drives with the entire internet stored on them.

Perhaps login details will be passed down as family heirlooms. In the future someone will be able to sell a hotmail login account to a 21st century collector. I wonder what else will become an internet artefact. Perhaps a screenshot of the first internet page or the notorious Paris Hilton video.

Can you imagine the reaction to some of the internet fads? I mean imagine looking back on a caveman dancing around pretending to have a lightsaber. Or how about pictures of cats with funny captions along the bottom.

Given the sheer attention some of these things get, the future of humanity is going to have a pretty disturbed outlook on us. They’ll wonder how we ever found the time to pronounce war on each other when we spent most of our time searching for funny pictures online.

The personal questions you post anonymously on Yahoo answers and internet forums will be giggled at by children as they study you in primary school. The painstaking time you spent perfecting those blog posts will be critiqued for its poor outdated English. Though I doubt children will change, they’ll spend most of their time looking for the rude words. So be sure to add some in your next post to give them a laugh.

Yahoo has created the internet alternative to a time capsule. It is next being opened in the year 2020 which isn’t really that far off. Then again at the rate we’re going the internet itself might be obsolete by then.

At the rate Google is going, they’ll still be around. In fact they’ll most likely be running the museum, if not the planet itself.