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The Internet in Ancient Times

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Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.

This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.

CODE OF LAWS

1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.

2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.

3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.

4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.

5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.

6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.

Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This thread is filled with people underestimating the neck strength gorillas have.

Good luck being able to choke out a fking gorilla, no matter what sort of Eddie Hall sized bastard you are.

I may be mistaken but I doubt that any remotely average or even slightly above average person could choke out a gorilla, even if the gorilla can't remove the person with his arms and is just flexing his neck.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

That one guy comes back walking funny "I thought you said beat OFF!"

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It would probably take 5 -10 unarmed (and not allowed to use any tools) fit adult men to take down a gorilla, depending on a variety of factors. Most gorillas would rather run than confront humans, though.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

A gorilla will make very quick work of 5 men. If it's direct combat, 10 is also way too small of a number.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are they gunna do, punch it to death? Good fucking luck. They’re not going to be able to pin it down, the gorilla will probably gut at least one of them and beat the shit out of a couple before anything even gets going and it may even use as a flail against the others if it’s feeling particularly spicy and tool-usey that day.

That big forehead is also because it’s all muscle that pulls a giant, fanged mouth shut with incredible force. Grown adults can be killed, and definitely at least subdued, by dogs and you think a handful of “fit” men could take a gorilla?

Laughable, honestly. They couldn’t even do enough damage if they came upon while sleeping and didn’t have a huge rock to crash on its head.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They don't have to kill the gorilla, just disable it. Fingers, meet eyeballs. It's hard to stop five pairs of arms at once. It would be at great cost to the men, of course, but it's not as impossible as you make it seem.

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