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by caublestone 1701 days ago
I guess in 3k years archeologists will discover black bricks and say “it appears to have an apple motif. These people seemed to worship some apple god.”
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A not un-funny observation. I used to suggest that after seeing what the equestrian world was like, that future archeologists would see how the wealthiest people of this era spent huge fortunes on temples and buildings for horses, when in fact they were just for horse shows - and this suggested that the ancient Egyptians probably didn't worship cats at all, but that cat shows were just a really big social thing back then. Someone from thousands of years in the future discovering the now ancient internet could interpret the same thing.
Every now and then you see anthropologists admitting that "ritual object" is just their way of saying they have no idea what it's for

Some of the Moai of Rapa Nui (aka the giant stone heads on Easter Island) used to have eyes. The fragments of the whites of the eyes - almond-shaped white stones with a central hole - were misidentified as "ritual bowls" for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai#Eyes

Interestly, it was also associated with black turtles and a fear of buttons. Some scholars think that there were two different apple gods, both named Steve, while others insist that it was two aspects of the same deity.

Records point that there was a war for the skies between the thunder god, Macromedia Flash,and the apple god, Steve. The thunder god was huge and lived in the cloud, so Steve gave its followers very small boxes and put the clouds on them. Little by little there were no more clouds big enough for the thunder god and he falled into oblivion.

At least one AOL CD will survive whatever civilisation-level apocalypse.