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[-] psud@aussie.zone 25 points 1 year ago

History is about 10k years, the 200k years is mostly pre-history. People didn't write stuff down until they invented agriculture and needed to track trade between owners, workers, etc

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True and interesting to note. OOP says 'dawn of humanity' though, not recorded history, so taking 200k as 'human history' is also valid.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm used to the narrower meaning of "history", meaning recorded. I like that definition as it lets you differentiate between it and prehistory.

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Definitely a useful distinction.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Well, in this case it must have been recorded on video, so could as well start recording before inventing the writing

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