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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by musicale on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:44AM (#35898596)
It's remarkable what some 200,000 people (maybe fewer?) in ancient Athens were apparently able to come up with.[1]

They even did pretty well with computing with the Antikythera mechanism and its predecessors; though, like Babbage, they were limited by the manufacturing technology of the day.

[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1165/ancient-greek-inve...

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by lifeonlars on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:52AM (#35900858)
Not sure this is a representative sample of "people 2000 years ago".
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