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You send us your most ephemeral and worthless communications, and we'll carefully transcribe them into the most long-lasting medium known to man - a clay tablet.
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Here's how it works:
Just send us a tweet or text (use the text field in the order form)
We'll carefully translate it into cuneiform
We'll stamp it on an actual clay tablet
and mail it to you.Favorite jokes? Amazing pickup lines? Your 2-star review of last summer's blockbuster?
KEEP IT FOREVER.
I dunno, the choice of Old Persian is rather questionable when everyone knows the lingua franca was Akkadian, and looking at the tablets it's pretty clear they were using a sharpened chopstick rather than reeds harvested from the banks of the Euphrates. In sum: FAIL.
(Score: 1) by Osamabobama on Monday November 09 2015, @07:12PM
When you guys back up your hard drives (which you do, because it was covered here about a month ago, right?) do you choose the longest lasting historic medium because it should hold up pretty well? For instance, the 3.5 inch floppy had a pretty good run, which would suggest they last a long time. On the other hand, storage durability is immediately useless if one can't read the data on the day it is written.
Long term durability can be predicted fairly well at this point, too. I suspect that granite or glass would fare better than clay if buried in a swamp. Just because a few clay tablets are the oldest surviving writing doesn't mean that technology hasn't overtaken them.
Whatever--I'm boring myself writing about the technical failings of a product that isn't intended to be taken seriously. Just give a kid a stick and some clay and have them make an original art project to bury in your yard for future generations to discover. More fun, less money, just as useless.
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