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Perhaps it's just me, but I find surreal how discussions on the internet 16 years ago were pretty much as they are today.



http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%2...

It's translations of Roman graffiti found in Pompeii. If you're surprised human nature hasn't changed in 16 years, prepare to be flabbergasted. :)


On April 19th, I made bread

I guess Twitter was pretty much the same back then, too.


We are some slow species when it comes to evolution it seems.


Its not surreal, just that people aren't moving on. Just solving the same problems over again using new toys; and often doing a poor job of it because they do not understand engineering fundamentals of their problem space.




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