Hieroglyphics
Can’t we just forget the whole pile of mostly meaningless hieroglyphics and go back to using words - just like cave men have before us ?
The Unicode Consortium's technical documentation website went belly up on Friday, two days after the organization said the planned March 2021 release of Unicode 14.0 will be delayed six months due to COVID-19. The Mountain View, Calif.-based non-profit oversees the Unicode Standard, a character encoding scheme that allows …
OK, it was early on Monday morning and perhaps my meaning wasn't fully apparent or got stuck somewhere between my brain and the keyboard.
What I was trying to say is that cavemen (and presumably cavewomen) used to draw pictures, but we all moved on from that. I find it ironic that thousands of years later we are going back to drawing pictures again.
This makes me wonder if the archaeologists of the future looking at our digital records will be able to figure out what that specific Unicode character was trying to explain to the other party. Personally, I think we are going backwards with pictures.
The only good thing about this compared to the Egyptian wall carvings is that at least bits of the wall won't have crumbled, so we would hope to have an accurate record, or possibly no record when someone takes down that specific web site, but that is a very different thing about historical records.
What I was trying to say is that cavemen (and presumably cavewomen) used to draw pictures, but we all moved on from that. I find it ironic that thousands of years later we are going back to drawing pictures again.
I don't think that is the consortium's fault. IKEA started it.
:)
>cavemen ... used to draw pictures, but we all moved on from that.
What if they were just the Powerpoint presentations of their day?
Ugg will give presentation on value proposition of hunting mammoth
Although without transitions they presumably had to all move to the next cave for each slide