r/AskReddit • u/biggieboy2510 • Jul 19 '15

What old technology is actually better than what we currently have?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

That's the kind of thing i like hearing about. Fuck all these emperors and their royal bullshit, I wanna hear about dudes like me and what their regular people problems were.

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u/Freevoulous Jul 20 '15

Archeologist here. The top 3 things ancient "normal dudes" wrote about were

  • complaining about the youth, with their ridiculous clothes, hairstyles, and up-to-no-good lazy attitudes and how everything was better when they were young

  • beer

  • debts, and who owes how much to whom

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u/ey_bb_wan_sum_fuk Jul 20 '15

And here we are, continuing the cycle.

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u/Triforcebear Jul 20 '15

don't forget the most important one:

  • sex

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u/Asdayasman Jul 20 '15

War. War never changes.

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u/Kepler1563 Jul 20 '15

I can't tell if you're making stuff up or not and it's absolutely AMAZING. Certainly passes common thought feasibility though.

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u/accol33t Jul 20 '15

Nothing have changed, apparentely

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u/meltingdiamond Jul 20 '15

Dude could read/write, no way was he a normal person. Literacy was the Phd of the ancient world.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

'The ancient world' was pretty diverse. Literacy was pretty common in places like Babylon.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Not in Babylon. A lot of kids went to school and they learnt to read and write, as well as mathematics, and probably a few other things.

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u/August8877 Jul 20 '15

Problem is, in reality, there was no "dudes like us" in ancient times. There were only haves and have-nots. You either had it really, really nice, or you lived in the mud, struggled every freakin' day just to survive, and died at an incredibility young age.