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psud@aussie.zone 11 months agoHistory 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 11 months ago
True and interesting to note, OOP says ‘dawn of humanity’ though, not recorded history, so taking that as ‘human history’ is valid.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months 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 11 months ago
Definitely a useful distinction.
sukhmel@programming.dev 11 months ago
Well, in this case it must have been recorded on video, so could as well start recording before inventing the writing