At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared

Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by jacobolus on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:00PM (#14405304)

Actually, some of the earliest writings we have (in Mesopotamia) are for managing beer production supply chains.

Other early mathematical/written work was for taxes and debt records, but also recording business transactions, adjudicating land boundary disputes, managing subcontracted work quotas, and so on. Then later of course we get written legal codes, astronomical records, religious texts, satirical stories complaining about scribes’ incompetent and hypocritical bosses, personal letters, ...

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:53PM (#14407051)

Complaint letters, too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by pjmlp on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:31AM (#14407972)

Great read, it might be around 4000 years old and yet feels so actual.

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by crottypeter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:41PM (#14405624)

> taxes and debt records

Probably along the lines of "X owes me a beer!"

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by nebabyte on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @09:31PM (#14406955)

Early hieroglyphics: "tipcoin! 1 beer"

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Re:At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared by Nition on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:45AM (#14407833)

Back when the blockchain was a chain of blocks.

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