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🛰️AquaSwitch Report📡
Do you have any idea how the internet works, or how it even started?
Or even, what the risks and rewards are of the up-and-coming web3 internet?
A short 🧵 to keep you up to speed on this crucial public infrastructure 🚠
Do you have any idea how the internet works, or how it even started?
Or even, what the risks and rewards are of the up-and-coming web3 internet?
A short 🧵 to keep you up to speed on this crucial public infrastructure 🚠
1/ The origins 🕳️
Some say the OG was telegraphy, which allows us to share messages globally through electrical signals.
Others say it was the first network of local computers from the 1950s...
In any case, these pseudo-internets are certainly part of the recipe.
Some say the OG was telegraphy, which allows us to share messages globally through electrical signals.
Others say it was the first network of local computers from the 1950s...
In any case, these pseudo-internets are certainly part of the recipe.
Early Aegean Longboats.
(mid-5th / beginning of 3th millennium BC).
#Longboat #Aegean #Cyclades #Strofilas #Vathi
(mid-5th / beginning of 3th millennium BC).
#Longboat #Aegean #Cyclades #Strofilas #Vathi
1.Until recently, it was widely believed that the beginning of shipping in the Cyclades took place during the EC II period (2800-2200BC),according to the recovery of various clay, stone and lead models of ships found in burials ensembles, as well as from depictions on frying pans
2. However, the rock carvings from Strofilas and Vathi demonstrated a strongly nautical orientation of the Cycladic islanders as early as the Final Neolithic (mid-5th millennium BC), identifying the appearance of navigation in the Cyclades 1500 years earlier.
What was life like on a Cycladic island over 2,500 years ago?
Take a digital tour through Vryokastro, the ancient capital city of the island of Kythnos, with the archaeologists who know it best!
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#greece #archaeology #cyclades #travel
Take a digital tour through Vryokastro, the ancient capital city of the island of Kythnos, with the archaeologists who know it best!
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#greece #archaeology #cyclades #travel
2/ We met up with Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian & his team from @uth_gr who have been excavating the ancient city of Kythnos since 2002.
Combining survey, excavation, & underwater archaeology, they’re doing some of the most interesting work on the Greek islands today!
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Combining survey, excavation, & underwater archaeology, they’re doing some of the most interesting work on the Greek islands today!
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3/ The ancient city flourished from the 10th century BCE all the way until the 7th century CE, making it an incredibly long-lived site with fascinating archaeology.
Just offshore, the little island of Vryokastraki even has evidence for Early Cycladic & Mycenaean settlement!
Just offshore, the little island of Vryokastraki even has evidence for Early Cycladic & Mycenaean settlement!
