good point...now noodle this...which is still readable or is in existence
today? Some stone tablets found today are thousands of years old!!!
Try to find a computer (outside of a museum) that can read an 8" floppy?
Heck, even a 5.25, or a 2.5...double heck...even CD's & DVD's on
some newer.
My type writer still works and folks can still read the stuff written
via it...but my Windows 97 word processor software won't even load
on any of my computers today...some of the doc's written on that old
software is not readable by today's word processors...
Most all analogies has two or more edges to them...
Wrong Lane wrote:
Quills and ink left the stone tablets and chisel guys in the dust. There were likely many who claimed a real scribe needs to be able to understand the delicate nature of a stone tablet and inscribe it just so while at the same time not breaking it.
Along came the typewriter and scribes said it was the end of handwriting (might of had a point)
I remember thinking my parents were dumb for being unable to program the time into thier VCR, now my kids roll thier eyes at me for not fully utlizing all the features on my smartphone.
My point, damn I forget but it was a good one!