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Clues to Lost Prehistoric Code Discovered in Mesopotamia
Live Science ^
| October 10, 2013 07:44am ET
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 10/10/2013 8:13:46 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: Nervous Tick
Here I was going to get on here and write Fortran and you one upped me.
To: robowombat
The clay balls may represent the world's "very first data storage system," ... Only to be resurrected in the form of the 0bamacare website.
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10/10/2013 9:36:21 AM PDT
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Godzilla
(3/7/77)
To: robowombat
They had a lot of glitches when they were first introduced.
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10/10/2013 10:05:35 AM PDT
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MUDDOG
To: DonaldC
wouldn’t this code technically be writing?
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10/10/2013 10:07:15 AM PDT
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GeronL
To: crusadersoldier
Fortran works here, as well — it’s just a different prehistoric code epoch. :-)
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10/10/2013 10:24:34 AM PDT
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Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: Berosus; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Berosus. One of the old buds on The Globe forum went into some detail about the accounting system change in Sumeria that led to full-blown writing for recordkeeping. :')
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10/10/2013 8:45:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: robowombat
Initial interpretations indicate that the people of that time feared man-made global warming due to growing use of cook fires and estimated that that world would end within two decades.
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10/11/2013 6:55:41 AM PDT
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Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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