Re:Remains of an extinct world of organisms discovered
by nocoiner on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:28PM
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What a great comment.
I recall reading not that long ago something about some condiment that was apparently on every public eating table in 18th England. Yet (as I recall the story) virtually nothing is known about what the condiment actually was. It was so ordinary yet unremarkable, there’s like only a single surviving written reference to it. And that reference was something like, “is there even anything to be said about the humble table jar?” And in retrospect, yes, there was!
Fast forward back to the future and it's now 2023 and I ask my 15 year old niece if she knows what a re-run is and she doesn't have a clue.
It's wild to think that things that dominated every day life to the point that not knowing about them would be comical in a mainstream movie have now become unknown again. She also didn't know about yellow pages or AOL cds, but she knew of VCRs and has seen but never used a floppy disk.
These organisms dominated life and we didn't even know they existed. I wonder what AOL CDs existed in the 1800s or 1700s or 300s or -1700s. We see their tools and clay tablets and jewelry and crap, but what games or toys or other things are just gone after being ubiquitous?
Anyway, it's neat to learn about a whole world that once existed on this same planet.