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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 Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place.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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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s some top quality Dwaven battle bread there.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure its chocolate lava cake.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Can't help but hear the "ay yo" of that song as "egg roll". We call it the egg roll song in our household.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Service was terrible when I went, too, and talk about dirty; the place must have been covered in like, 6 pes of dust, no joke!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

RIght? And don't get me started on Herculaneum. I thought that's where all the rich people's villas were, but it's just filthy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How did you expect them to bake a a loaf that would last 2000 years?

[–] tripledip@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if they obtained these displays like they did with the human remains. Are these plaster injected molds from the cavities left when the lava cooled?

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

No, these are carbonised bread loaves.

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

I believe they're the real thing. Also, thankfully, they no longer do the plaster injection of human remains because it destroys anything that might help them learn more about the remains, like DNA.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Looks pretty stale too

[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Just put a little butter on it and you should be fine

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

I don't understand why they get so angry when you eat their shitty bread. Like, ugh omg, be thankful, I'm disposing of it.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

To make it last longer