# Codenames for post-2.0 Discourse releases

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I don’t think that’s quite a fit .. 2.4 is “writing”, so going with

> **[Cuneiform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform)**
>
> Cuneiform\[note 1\] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
> Over the course of its...

Some idea of timeline:

| | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2.1 | petroglyph | Bhimbetka | ~30,000 years ago |
| 2.2 | pictogram | La Pasiega | ~15,000 years ago |
| 2.3 | ideogram | Vinča | ~4500 BC |
| 2.4 | writing | Cuneiform | ~2600 BC |

Next up, alphabet is also looking clearly Greek, at 800 BC

> By at least the 8th century BCE the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language, creating in the process the first “true” alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with consonants. According to Greek legends transmitted by Herodotus, the alphabet was brought from Phoenicia to Greece by Cadmos. The letters of the Greek alphabet are the same as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and both alphabets are arranged in the same order.

So let’s plan ahead for future releases 🥳

| | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2.5 | alphabet | [Greek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Greek_alphabet) | 800 BC |
| 2.6 | telegraph | [Baudot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code) | 1870 AD |
| 2.7 | telephone | [Strowger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch) | 1891 AD |
| 2.8 | radio | [Audion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audion) | 1906 AD |
| 2.9 | television | [Nipkow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk) | 1920 AD |
| 3.1 | satellite | [Telstar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar) | 1962 AD |
| 3.2 | videotelephony | [PicturePhone](http://ethw.org/Picturephone) | 1964 AD |
| 3.3 | internet | [Arpanet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) | 1983 AD |

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