• Alberat@lemmy.world
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    their peoples used storage devices they called “floppies” yet they were rigid squares. no one is certain of the origin of this term and the leading theory is that the squares simply calcified over time.

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      16 hours ago

      i remember when i was a child being certain that american cars had a totally different type of engine than our car, because i knew from tv they all ran on gas, while ours used liquid fuel.

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      funny. That’s exactly how archeology works. They try to fit the logic and customs of today into what people actually did in the past