Originally Posted By: hikermor
Textbooks?? We got textbooks now?? Back in the day, there was no such thing. It wouldn't have worked anyway, since available knowledge would have been chiseled into blocks of stone - not very portable not easy to edit or revise.


Stone inscriptions? I didn't realize you were that young. I beg your pardon -- I thought you pre-dated the invention of writing, and just memorized things with Homeric mnemonic devices. So how did you like old Hammurabi? I take it you've still got both your eyes?