The Internet in Ancient Times

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 1 day ago

Hypocrites.

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Hypocrites.

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 1 day ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 3 days ago

I dock in Sardinia and this is how I get greeted?!

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I dock in Sardinia and this is how I get greeted?!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 3 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 5 days ago

As a representative of the Caral civilization, I wish to remind the residents of the fertile crescent that this sort of thing is TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. Potatoes are OUR THING.

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As a representative of the Caral civilization, I wish to remind the residents of the fertile crescent that this sort of thing is TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. Potatoes are OUR THING.

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 5 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 7 days ago

I keep getting calls from this number. Not sure if it's a scam or...

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I keep getting calls from this number. Not sure if it's a scam or...

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 7 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 8 days ago

Preferred language

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Preferred language

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 8 days ago

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 9 days ago

I’m really getting sick and tired of these MEET SINGLE WOMEN IN UR AREA ads. I’m in Sumer! I’m nowhere near them!

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I’m really getting sick and tired of these MEET SINGLE WOMEN IN UR AREA ads. I’m in Sumer! I’m nowhere near them!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 9 days ago

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

She's my Baby-lonian

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She's my Baby-lonian

PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 9 days ago

And we have just three days to find out...

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And we have just three days to find out...

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 9 days ago

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NegativeNull@lemmy.worldM · 10 days ago

"May you live in interesting times"

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"May you live in interesting times"

NegativeNull@lemmy.worldM · 10 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 12 days ago

Are these the bit coins everyone's been talking about?

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Are these the bit coins everyone's been talking about?

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 12 days ago

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 13 days ago

I'm so tired of it. Any time you go into a restaurant or walk past a construction site, you hear the workers speaking Proto-Indo-European. THIS IS AN AKKADIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY!

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I'm so tired of it. Any time you go into a restaurant or walk past a construction site, you hear the workers speaking Proto-Indo-European. THIS IS AN AKKADIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 13 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 15 days ago

Already?!

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Already?!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 15 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 15 days ago

Come on, buddy. It'll get better!

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Come on, buddy. It'll get better!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 15 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 16 days ago

Why are you people using ink and clay to record things when there's perfectly good string?

en.wikipedia.org

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Why are you people using ink and clay to record things when there's perfectly good string?

en.wikipedia.org

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 16 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 18 days ago

Have any of you seen an animal that looks like this? Damn thing ran off with all of the rings I've been goldsmithing.

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Have any of you seen an animal that looks like this? Damn thing ran off with all of the rings I've been goldsmithing.

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 18 days ago

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 days ago

She ain't wrong

lemmy.blahaj.zone

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She ain't wrong

lemmy.blahaj.zone

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 days ago

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 21 days ago

You can't even trust a sword these days...

www.theguardian.com

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You can't even trust a sword these days...

www.theguardian.com

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 21 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 23 days ago

First you can't trust the Elamites, now you can't trust the Iberians!

english.elpais.com

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First you can't trust the Elamites, now you can't trust the Iberians!

english.elpais.com

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 23 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 24 days ago

Get the compensation you deserve!

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Get the compensation you deserve!

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 24 days ago

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 29 days ago

PSA

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PSA

Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM · 29 days ago

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The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world

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Welcome to the stone age… or the bronze age… or the iron age… heck, anything with an ‘age’ is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.

This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.

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Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.

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