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The Internet in Ancient Times

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Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.

This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.

CODE OF LAWS

1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.

2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.

3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.

4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.

5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.

6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.

Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.

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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Primitive technology has put out several videos about smelting iron, it's very interesting! It shows how labour and energy intensive it is. The quantity of charcoal he uses to obtain few grams of iron !

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The fact that he's not even working with ore is wild too. The guy just gathers some orange slime from a river and then turns it into a working knife

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Slime instead of ore and charcoal instead of coal, he is making iron on the hardest difficulty setting

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He literally only works with what he can gather and make himself from the area he works in, which is a forest in the north of Queensland, Australia. So the charcoal is made from the local trees in a furnace made from clay from the banks of the nearby river, and the slime is iron bacteria that grow in the river

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know that, I watch all his videos

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Well I didn't know that

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago

Oh my bad, I misinterpreted your comment

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'm here for that. He's the G all the lil blacksmiths wanna be...

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is probably the first source of iron used by humans. These sludge/mud sources are pretty clean concentrated sources of iron oxides because of how they form.

It is just easiest way to make iron, they aren't used now because there's not much iron in them.

Edit: I mean they are small

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love that channel!! I only recently learned you can turn on Closed Captioning and he talks about what he's doing by text.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's very cool. It's a great way to make the video more informative without disturbing the peaceful atmosphere.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Cave man. Pssh. Gimme a nice, old-fashioned fertility goddess any day. If it was good enough for gramps, it's good enough for me.

Pic for reference.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry but you have to ask fellow cave scientists in CASA

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Forgot where you need super rare tin ore.