The History of the Paragraph, Where Do Paragraphs Come From?

i couldn't help but think a lot about the medium involved, too. If you go back and look at super old examples of writing that have survived, you're looking at things like oracle bones. You see that sometimes from m indian traditions. There's also, of course, the use of clay tablets. Even if what you're putting down is certainly not a diary entry, but it's more about just recording figures and facts and that sort of thing. So you would want to fit as much text on one of those as possible.