ok, what i wonder about is the internet... which seems to be one of the cleanest dividing lines between us and everything before us. if we've been forming civilizations and making our way through life in just the way you would expect *us* to do, for thousands of years...

then thousands of years ago was there a drive for something like live journal or a BBS? or google for that matter... beyond just the diptych, what about distributing and sharing information? ...people always talk about wandering bards and such, but a bard seems like it would come closer to replacing CNN than blogging.

or is the need for blogging/bbs discussions only the result of modern forces...?