It’s a bit of a stretch to call it a hashtag, but it still makes more sense than any of Donald Trump’s tweets.
World's oldest URL – fragments 73,000 years old – discovered in cave
Scientists have discovered, tucked inside a cave in South Africa, the oldest drawing yet, made around 73,000 years ago. And it looks suspiciously like a worldwide web address. The drawing consists of from red scraggly lines arranged in a cross-hatch pattern on a slab of rock, some marks are horizontal, others are at angles …
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Thursday 13th September 2018 14:21 GMT Eddy Ito
No, it's quite clear that this is simply a portion of an early powerpoint slide.
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Thursday 13th September 2018 07:06 GMT AndrueC
Reminds me of a cartoon in an old Sinclair Spectrum magazine. There are two cavemen in a cave (well - where else would you find them) and one is drawing an animal. The other has written 'PUSH BC; RET;' and is saying "I bet that'll confuse the archaeologists" :)
Mind you when I read it I thought "It'll confuse a few programmers, as well".
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Thursday 13th September 2018 09:58 GMT Hans 1
Re: Hash FFS!
Dear Spazturtle,
Me thinks op was actually reading #N iso //W on that rock and #N is a hashtag with N being the tag ;-). In the actual image you can just about distinguish a hash in the first symbol followed by an N.
You are very welcome, sir!
Best Regards,
El'Reg's Voluntary Fire department
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Thursday 13th September 2018 13:21 GMT D@v3
Re: knapping
I know that, you know that, but these guys were cavemen, maybe they were still working it out, and using bad material at that.
(i found a pointy stone the other day and hurt myself on it, i wonder if i can make this thing pointy by rubbing it on the wall, to hurt someone else with. no, no i can't)
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Thursday 13th September 2018 10:49 GMT PNGuinn
I call prehistoric b***sh*t
It's a date. and far more recent than those daft paleoarchiowhatsits think.
1601. Or maybe 1608.
If you disagree, find me the next rock with the remaining digits on.
Far better they waste their time worrying how and when and why ....
NURSE! My coat's coming untied at the back!
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Thursday 13th September 2018 11:35 GMT onefang
So this is the earliest TCP fragmented packet? Sure their technology was very primitive, taking 73,000 years for a broadcast packet to reach our screens, I guess they hadn't invented timeouts yet. I can't wait for the next fragment to arrive, we might eventually see the entire URL. Then we'll retroactively slashdot it.
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Thursday 13th September 2018 16:05 GMT jake
So-called "timeout" in IPv4 ...
... is actually caused by the TTL (time to live) field decrementing to zero It is not a function of time, but rather the number of hops a particular packet has taken. It works the same way in IPv6, but it's now called "hop limit" instead of TTL, just to annoy us old farts. Regardless, if a rock sits buried for several dozen millennia, the TTL field remains static and the packet stays valid.
Which brings up the obvious question ... how does one get an ICMP-11 (time exceeded) back to the originating server?
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