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As far as I'm aware, archaeology (specifically Assyriology and Egyptology) point to independent origins of writing systems (the writing as we know it): Sumerians and their cuneiforms, ancient Egyptians and their hieroglyphs. Even though, as far as I'm aware, Sumerians seem to have been the first ones to ever write, before Egyptians independently did it too, therefore Sumerians seem to be the pioneers of writing.

Having said this, how tragically ironic it is, as if the uncaring Cosmos got a sadistic sense of humour, the fact that the pioneer of writing is unknown even through the means of their own creation. It's as if the WWW lacked any hypertext files containing the substring "Tim Berners-Lee", or if every radio communication ever propagated across the EM field lacked any modulated signal, analog or digital, that would demodulate to "Guglielmo Marconi".

We don't know the name or history of the person who first wrote, nor we know to whom they were writing to (must've been a solitary endeavour, scratching some arrows on a clay when nobody else will understand it), nor we know what they wrote first (everybody knows the infamous "We the people" USian trope, and some nerds like me know how the first text transmitted between computers was "LO" as in truncated "HELLO", but the first Cuneiform text ever was lost to entropy and decay).

We don't even need to go that far, though. Do we know the names and life stories for ALL people who died from COVID-19? Surely we can find online and offline registers for several of them, but even the World Health Organization can't tell precisely how many people died from COVID-19, let alone who exactly they were. And it's been mere 6 years ago, when The Internet as we know it was already so ubiquitous! Now imagine The Plague? Or the dinosaurs, who simply got transmuted into fuel we use for our noisy metallic apparata with no regard for their own individual life stories from a time when they were gigantic living beings?

Thing is: we, living beings, humans and whatnot, we're infinitesimally nothing before the mercilessness of the infinite cosmic entropy, decay and Death, for She can and She will erase us just as She's already slowly erasing our biological existences as we speak (we know this as "apoptosis", "aging", etc, to which, sorry to remind the techno-gnostics who crave for "immortality", that nothing can excel Her, not even the universe which, despite being so big in such a manner we have no idea how mind-bogglingly big it is, is also going to cease someday, too).

But, hey, humans must leave a legacy, conquer the cosmos and avoid Death Herself (whether we, as flesh-and-bones entities, would get past the insurmountable Cosmic Great Filter, before another Great Reset happens in this cosmic vicinity, something that not even "powerful" hominids with red buttons at their disposal could even prevent or stop from happening, is a whole other story)! To infinite and beyond we must! :)