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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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 11 months ago (2 children)

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 11 months ago

Definitely a useful distinction.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

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