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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by davemtl on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:05PM (#31170918)
We're effectively looking at somebody's notebook from 3200 years ago. Makes me wonder what our descendants would think if they were looking at our old notebooks and random text files in the next 3200 years.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by below43 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:52PM (#31174631)
They won't see anything because we store everything digitally. They will assume civilization suddenly lost the ability to write anything down.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by martinflack on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:51PM (#31175010)
In all seriousness, I think digital archaeology will be a huge field.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by TruthWillHurt on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:13PM (#31173260)
"Apparently the people of the 21st century had a short attention span as they could only focus on 10 things that would change their <something>.."
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