Oldest recorded transaction
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#2beer drinking goes waaaay back
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#3beer drinking goes waaaay back
malt is used in baking as well
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#4beer drinking goes waaaay back
malt is used in baking as well
they evolved in tandem. Back in the day, old bread would be used as a starter culture for beer.
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#5And here's the oldest recorded customer complaint
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/complaint-tablet-to-ea...
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#6Me buying a PlayStation 1 in 1997
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#7You can store whatever ancient timestamp you want in SQLite, its Just Text or Just an Integer although the date library functions may not support it
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#8This isn't just the oldest recorded transaction, it's nearly the oldest known recognizable sample of human writing. Not a love letter or a sermon or a story, but a receipt. This probably reflects their ubiquity rather than importance. There is one known older writing sample, the Kish Tablet of Jemet Nasr. Since that tablet represents lists and counts of goods (barley, oil, livestock), it may also be a receipt, or perhaps an inventory.
The oldest known non-commercial writing is a set of proverbs from around 2600 BCE, Instructions of Shuruppak.
With my luck my most cringe-worthy diary entries will probably last that long.
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#9> Considering this thing survived 5000 years (holy shit!) with zero downtime and has stronger durability guarantees than most databases today.
One could argue that it had 5000 years of downtime when no one knew where it was /s