10,000 BC
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Quite recently I have come across an online newspaper article about a mammoth tusk discoveries in Siberia or some other distant Russian area. As we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Internet, it amazes me that two spheres: the distant past and technology-packed present interchange. Around 10 000 BC, I would have probably been scribbling something on the cave wall and waited patiently for someone to visit it to gain one brave reader. As my other skills would have probably been neglected, I would have been mauled by wild animals, I would have died of hunger, or would have been eaten by my cannibal neighbors. As you can imagine, I do appreciate recent inventions.
What technology added to our lives was also making distant past as tangible and real as the present. If you want to travel to days when survival was more than paying off a mortgage and finding a job, when cats were not tamed pets but wild beasts ready to tear you apart, take a moment with 10 000 BC. When you think of it, planes, cars, computers, coffee makers and remote control didn't deprive us of the emotions of a pristine human, as fear, love, passion, and faith are as present as ever before.
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