teenagers, some time after we're an interplanetary species, looking at a "synchronizing data" notification: "hey, why did they make the save icon a cumulus cloud?"

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Probably the other way around. They are on a planet with atmosphere they look at the sky and think "Wow, man, look at these things on the sky, they look like synchronizing data"!

Related somehow: This is a great article (and podcast episode if you prefer the audio) about symbols and time.

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Related somehow: This is a great article (and podcast episode if you prefer the audio) about symbols and time.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

semiotics is wild, the only thing I can think offhandedly that has survived at least 4,000 years is that people still think fart jokes are funny:

semiotics is wild, the only thing I can think offhandedly that has survived at least 4,000 years is that people still think fart jokes are funny: https://www.businessinsider.com/historians-10-oldest-jokes-in-history-1900bc-2019-7?op=1

Symbols survive in weird ways, but their meaning is often lost.

Symbols survive in weird ways, but their meaning is often lost.

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alphabet.html