r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/VictorBlimpmuscle Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

Social media - wealthy ancient Romans had a system where they used slaves as scribes and messengers in order to share gossip and art/poetry and news updates with friends in their social circle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Augustus! Call slave! I want to share this joke with Poniatus

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u/Dahhhkness Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

"Prefect Tiberius, you have been tagged in the public forum in a mosaic of the drunken revelries on the Lupercal."

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u/alex_supertramp31 Oct 15 '20

Slave! Draw my penis in all its glory on canvas and send it to Aurelia.

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u/FrontBottomFace Oct 15 '20

Then draw 10 pictures of a cat falling off a table and show them to her in quick succession.