A Brief History of Communication. in The Stoner's Monologues

  • Dec. 19, 2021, 8:44 p.m.
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Do you ever have those moments where you just sink into your chair. Like Ahhh Guilt Free Relaxing. I gave ‘er all day and now I can actually mellow out without having massive anxiety about all the things I didn’t do (Although those things still exsist, sitting on my desk… Mocking me with their numbers and threats! - I have to renew government stuff after not needing to from Covid for so long. Like damn you taxes, I knew you’d be back. You were always coming back!)

Well that was a hell of a side bar.

Y’know… I just don’t get the call me Daddy thing. It’s like… One step away from “What are you doing step-bro” Maybe I’m just ahead of the curve. I can’ predict the future! I have my pulse on the finger of… no wait. I have my finger on the pulse of trending currents!

Have you ever heard of PrototypeRaptor? They’re great. Check them out. Something for everyone.
“3-1” is an awesome album. Iconic and Transition are two amazing songs.

Instagram is a totally different vibe than the live action Social Media I’m used to having come from a chat room environment. It’s the snail mail of Social Media. Hear that Fbook, You have eaten your own tail. What made industries obsolete has now come to make itself obsolete.

Y’know what’s a hard word to spell? Fancy underwear.

I swear those two statements weren’t related. It was a separate real life subject matter that came up.

Okay so first there was the telegram right? Was that the first major communication chain? (Okay so first there was a Tin Can and some String…) Oh boy I’m really going to go down this rabbit hole. Maybe this is how normal people develop random ass knowledge. You mean you don’t live in fear of the next second all the time? Ha.ha. Wild.

No me either. It’s cool.

How do you ever let go of children? Sometimes. Being a parent it blows my mind the relationship some people have with their children. Thankfully I have a good relationship with my mother (who has just moved in recently) but to think that there was a time when we were very distant like… Is that going to happen with my kid? Are they going to one day silence my call?

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Okay so: “The Sumerian cuneiform is the earliest known documentation of written language” Okay going a little too far back there for my point. I swear I still have one.

+Glances up at what was written above+

No No, I’m sure it’ll come back as I continue to read about the history of long distance communication.

Which was Wedge Shaped Marks imprinted on clay slabs, then the hieroglyphs, 3100 BC for those keeping track. So I guess the first ‘transportable long distance mail’ was hieroglyphs on papyrus. (I’m going through great lengths right now) A road built by Darius the GRRRReat, a “Royal Road” made communication more stream lined. 550BC. “Regular Maintenance” See that’s where my problems all begin. That’s why I have to renew everything!

In short. Taxes are the devil.

This is a joke. Taxes are an important part of our functioning society. They’ll never spend it correctly, we lost control ages ago. Yadda Yadda Yadda.

Do any of you follow “josielewisart” On insta? You should, this woman is a genius and makes pure colour theory art and makes it look so simple. Like I’m watching her thinking “Pssh, I could do that” “I never would but I know I could” like yeaaaaa right. It’s always dangerous when the professionals make it look too easy. That’s when you know they’re really good. Absolute genius of a woman. Her social marketing is on point from day 1. There’s someone I’d like to interview.

I have this recent obsession of people I’d like to interview. Or just interviewing random people. That’d be fun too. In my head. Much like doing Josie’s art. It’s fun in my head but I don’t ever actually want to do that”

Baby Pictures are dangerous. It’s like “Oh my god it was so hot in that apartment and I remember when her hair was so short and she just looked like a little cartoon come to life!”

Do you think one day we’ll look back on cellphone videos like we look back on VHS. I suppose it’s already happening but one day. Today technology will look decidedly dated. Keep that in mind TikTokker’s! One day, you too will be the aged VHS tape to another generation.

I guess when you look at Lightspeed being the next level of long distance communication it makes me wonder if there is a Dataspeed. Although I guess that’s limited by the speed of light due to vision. So it’s the Dataspeed would be The Speed of Data + Lightspeed because you wouldn’t see something if it was faster than light.

Anywho then came the telegraph, to answer that burning question. Also, Electricity, which seems way less cool then “Reflecting the fucking sun” Like… Don’t get me wrong, electricity is pretty nifty but reflecting the power of the sun just sounds a bit more metal.


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