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I haven't tried it but clay seems pretty cool.

• 082349872349872 2y ago
  The story I last heard about the origin of writing goes something like this: - people use clay tokens to keep track of their herds/inventory - these tokens get put into clay balls for security/transaction grouping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)#Origins - to avoid breaking and remaking the clay balls all the time, people record on the outside of the ball symbols indicating which tokens are on the inside of the ball - at some point, some bright person realises that all you need to do is make the second set of symbols on a tablet; as long as you have them recorded, all the balls and tokens are just legacy