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I hope the reboot is faithful to the original guy with a spear.

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4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: Two hairy cavemen sit on rocks and talk. They have long, unkempt hair and beards, as well as uni-brows, and wear short loin clothes. One of the cavemen on the left gestures while speaking to the other who is bush drawing in the dirt with a stick.

Caveman 1: Hey, you remember that cave painting of the guy with the spear?

Panel 2: Caveman 1 listens with a smile on his face. Caveman 2 is excited to discuss this masterpiece, his stick forgotten.

Caveman 2: Of course! That painting is the best!

Panel 3: Caveman 1 drops some knowledge on Caveman 2 who grabs his hair in shock and horror at the revelation.

Caveman 1: Would you believe that was made 20 years ago?

Caveman 2: Whaaat?

Panel 4: Caveman 2 covers his face with his hands to hide his despair. Caveman 1 somberly agrees with his companion.

Caveman 2: Fuck I’m old…

Caveman 1: Same

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      25·
      7 days ago

      At a previous IT job, the department had been around quite a while. User accounts didn’t provide a start date - at least not one that I could see - but there were ways you could estimate the general length of time the user had been with the department.

      A few times, some aspect of those ways would cause a configuration or processing issue. For a while I was the only person handling … That department. Almost universally, after I fixed and explained the problem, the people having these difficulties would, mostly jokingly, complain about being old. I would say “you’re just a legacy user!” (or similar things) It almost always made them laugh.

      So - I wouldn’t call you old. You’re a legacy and I appreciate your tenure!

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      7 days ago

      When I was born, cave painting were already out of fashion so I’m old but not that old

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 days ago

      When do you think this comic was made? Can you believe it was 50,000 years ago? Feel old yet?

    • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      It’s hard to say if the comic is supposed to make you feel better about being old. All we can say is that it was written with you specifically in mind.

  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz
    9·
    7 days ago

    Guy with a spear is closer in time to massive hut made of mammoth tusks than to now

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      6·
      7 days ago

      Reminds me of a school textbook we had. I don’t know what the reason was, I guess they would just trying to be funny, but ot had little quotes in the margins that sounded sensible when you first read them, but fell apart if you thought about it for 3 seconds.

      One of them was: Cleopatra was closer in time to stegosaurus, then we are now.

      • Danarchy@lemmy.nz
        1·
        6 days ago

        I miss this kinda shit.

        Tangentially related: the Factoids feature in 3-2-1 Contact magazine

  • Rusty@gamepad.club
    81·
    7 days ago

    @cannedtuna with the advancement of tech and the downfall of democracy into technofuedalism, it feels as if a million years have passed since now and 2004.

    People who weren’t alive during 9/11 may as well be a different species to those who were. Its similar to someone from 1890 being dropped into 1960. Except its a much shorter timeframe.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 days ago

      22 years were always long, especially when you are talking about the edge times just before there were massive changes.

      Take for example 1913 vs 1938 in Austria. (Ok, technically it’s 25 years, but it’s not much more than 22 years.)

      In this time span you had:

      • Monarchy, Austrohungarian Empire, at peace
      • WW1 starts (1914)
      • Austria loses WW1 (1918), Monarchy fails, first Austrian Republic is created.
      • First radio station goes live (1924)
      • Roaring 20s
      • The head of government makes a coup, declaring the Federal State of Austria (Ständestaat), a fascist dictatorship. (1934)
      • The Nazis take over Austria (1938)

      You can find similar periods of rapid change in every country. For the US look at e.g. the independence war or the civil war. Or the time before, during and after WW2.

      Yes, we are in a time of somewhat rapid change, but neither is that unique, nor is it especially rapid.

      And the comparison between 1890 and 1960 is entirely invalid. Much more changed in this time frame than between 2004 and 2026.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Except its a much shorter timeframe.

      The Singularity is coming.

      This feeling of ‘a million years’ of change happening in a few decades will only accelerate if current trends continue. Then it will happen in one decade. Then five years. Then one year. Then a matter of months. Then a matter of days. When it starts changing so fast that nobody can even keep up with it, the Singularity has arrived.

      • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net
        7·
        7 days ago

        Is the singularity coming though? Exponential curves have a way of stopping. This can be s-shaped where it ends at a new level, or it can crash, or other fun shapes. In the real world things don’t go to infinity… except for actual singularities (mostly black holes).

        Moore’s law has basically ended, for example. Chips aren’t doubling the number of transistors every 2 years anymore (since 2010 or so). Cell phones have stopped evolving recently, and are basically all identical now.

        My grandmother was around when the first car arrived in her county, when the Wright Brothers first flew, when radio and television arrived, through commercial flight, when the first satellite orbited the earth and when humans first walked on the moon. She got a phone and the Internet, lived through the discovery of the shape of the DNA molecule and vaccines that wiped out smallpox.

        In the USA the y changed from having the KKK being a powerful party to having civil rights laws and banning Jim Crow laws, through the roaring 20s and the great Depression, and through the New Deal and Reagan’s dismantling of the guardrails that kept capitalism surviving without killing the host.

        I’d say the changes of the 21st century so far - while noteworthy and important - are not faster than the changes of the 20th century.

        To be honest, I think the changes of the 19th century were even more massive. The step function of work being limited to what humans or animals could do to machines altered our society and our relationship to the world in ways unequalled since agricultural societies evolved. Railroads, telegraphs, electricity, steam ships. We discovered germ theory and electromagnetism and evolution. Amazing.

  • Jaycifer@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    I hear something I remember was 20 years ago and my first thought is that it’s so cool I got to witness that! Then I think about the people older than me and want to extract their experience of the things they lived through. Then I think about the people younger than me and wonder what they think of the things I remember and they don’t, hope they have some interest in learning of and from those things. Then I realize some day I’ll be older than most people and will have very few people in my life that have shared my experiences and get a little melancholy.