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> Knitting is a pretty recent invention, time-wise. The earliest knit objects we have are from Egypt around 1000 CE. This is an important point, and I don't me
by smitty1e 3y ago
> Knitting is a pretty recent invention, time-wise. The earliest knit objects we have are from Egypt around 1000 CE.
This is an important point, and I don't mean to diminishing it. But there was quite obviously a huge analog calculator cottage industry, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
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