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My thought is more just the ubiquity of the names. If even a few objects are well preserved with those names on them, then the names will be remembered. What th
by BirAdam 3y ago
My thought is more just the ubiquity of the names. If even a few objects are well preserved with those names on them, then the names will be remembered. What the people did may not be remembered, but the name may be. The ubiquity of Louis Vuitton and knock off products, Trump putting his name on… everything, etc.
- Retric 3y agoIf you just mean the actual names, I think most of our names will be recorded somewhere in 4,000 years. Genealogy doesn’t take up much space and people have been keeping widespread records for hundreds of years in many areas. The extreme is the Lurie Family which can “trace” part of it’s lineage back 3,000 years and that was with paper records. (700 years of that is well documented, prior to that is less certain.)
- bombcar 3y agoThere were some very famous names from the 1800s that are almost entirely forgotten now - the Brunswick bar, various patent medicines, etc. you can find some references in popular songs from the time, but they’re already fading from collective memory. Things may fade even faster even if we have written record of it.