Man opens up time capsule he buried 25 years ago and unlocks major nostalgia with what was inside

Do you ever get the urge to stick some of your possessions in a box, bury it and then come back many years later to dig it all up again?

If so, you might want to invest in a time capsule and cross your fingers for good health in the years to come.

We sometimes don't realise how much the world around us has changed in recent times until we unearth a little pocket of what it used to be like.

For one man who buried his time capsule back in the year 2000, opening it up again 25 years later is a veritable trip down memory lane to what things were like at the turn of the millennium.

Back in the late 90s, Crayola (yes, the crayon people) sold a plastic time capsule which people could fill with belongings, stash somewhere and then crack open years later.

One of the people who did this was Dylan Schrader, who posted the contents of his capsule on social media 25 years on from when he first sealed it up.

He explained that he initially intended to bury it but never got round to doing that, and at many points in the past two-and-a-half decades thought about either chucking it away or opening it up but patience won out in the end.

The first things he pulled out of his time capsule were late 90s pamphlets about AIDS, abstinence, HIV, alcohol and drugs, with the abstinence pamphlet seeming to point the finger of blame for the fall of the Roman Empire towards a population decline caused by a lack of sex.

Also in the capsule were family photos, a floppy disk, an advert for Pokémon themed sweets and an old coin from 1877.

Dylan also found a button from when his mum ran to be on the board of his school along with that staple of the 90s, Pogs.

He also included a Walmart receipt from 3 January, 2000, and apparently if you went to the US 25 years ago, you could buy a small slushie for 88 cents or a large one for $1.08.

Presumably the amount it costs for either drink these days is a depressingly higher amount.

Dylan also discovered a tape he'd recorded for his future self, though since the time capsule didn't come with a tape player he had to put in some effort to find out what message he'd wanted to leave himself.

He later tweeted that: "It starts with reading from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, continues with references to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a poem (?) by me (?), musings on the future, and then into a song by Alanis Morissette."

That's pretty iconic, to be honest.