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Subject: Pre-history (was Re: Wayland Makes Progress)
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On Sun, 17 May 2026 00:02:28 -0400
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

> Sorry, I'm kinda into this stuff, DO wonder where it all comes from
> and why. Does seem the ice age wasn't a nothing time, but it's VERY
> hard to find any durable artifacts, can't form a good picture.

It's fascinating stuff - the more you dig into it, the more you realize
that the part of history we have even fragmentary written records of is
just the tip of an iceberg reaching back *dozens* of millennia - there
are so many intriguing questions raised by what we *have* learned, but
so little left to go on in answering them...