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The Phoenicians invent an alphabet so clean that literally every Western writing system is a remix of it
Around 1000-900 BCE, Phoenician traders spread their 22-letter alphabet across the Mediterranean like the ultimate open-source project. The Greeks grabbed it, added vowels (huge upgrade tbh), and the rest is literally history. Every time you text someone, you're using tech that started with Phoenician merchants flexing their literacy.
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