
The Facsimile, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Amazing Thing About Documents
A document is a code that allows you to briefly catch the virus of someone else's thoughts from a different time and place. Eye so documents have been with us for a very long time, dating back to the late fourth millennium b c e in mesopotamia at least. Some scholars believe writing may have spread from culture to culture. The majority see it as a situation of independent invention in various major civilizations of the ancient world.
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