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Cuneiform Tablet vs. Palm
Jan 29th, 2006 at 7:07pm
 
Whenever I use my Palm I am thankful for tech advances
and amused at how close we have returned to the form
of the ancient cuneiform tablet and stylus.

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Reply #1 - Jan 29th, 2006 at 7:10pm
 
Cool tablet . I saw something like it for sale years back in an antiquety catalog . Smiley
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Reply #2 - Jan 30th, 2006 at 8:59pm
 
hah, that made me chuckle. that seems like something you'd see in a one-picture comic
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Reply #3 - Jan 31st, 2006 at 12:03pm
 
I have made something even closer. For thousands of years, cultures had little books. They were made of wood or ivory with a suare hollow in the center. The hollow was filled with wax. You used a stylus to write things in the wax, and the other end has an "Eraser, that will rubout the writing. The smallest ones were only big enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
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Reply #4 - Jan 31st, 2006 at 1:14pm
 
School boys have had to do their work ever since this whole writing thing caught on.
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Reply #5 - Feb 1st, 2006 at 1:32pm
 
Right! They were used by any litereate person . A recent find in Northern England called the Vindolana find produced hundreds of these tablets from the Roman Occupation. They had on them anything from soldier's orders, to schoolwork, to love letters.
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Reply #6 - Feb 1st, 2006 at 5:21pm
 
how cool is that? its the little things like that that make me love history Smiley
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Reply #7 - Feb 4th, 2006 at 2:08pm
 
those were pretty cool the stone tablet things and such

then again getting the dog to bring in the mail was a down right pain just watch the flintstones Grin

(i Really gotta start checking what i wrote before i press post..)
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Reply #8 - Feb 6th, 2006 at 5:46pm
 
Of course, having the newsboy throw the paper on the porch could cause problems, too. Especially if you are on the porch and try to catch it. Shocked
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Reply #9 - Feb 6th, 2006 at 8:48pm
 
think putting the news on a slingstone.....
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