My morning coffee wants to discuss the history of writing forms. From cuneiform on wet clay to markdown (as a cute analog of digital words).
• Clay tablets covered in silt or lava ash or risen sea levels took thousands of years to connect with a reader, if ever.
• Markdown gets sent across the ether instantly and it still may or may not find a reader.
#history #writing #cuneiform #markdown #typography
Luke Dorny :PaintBrush:
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