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7	->''"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new."''
8	-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfEcclesiastes Ecclesiastes 1:9]]''', Literature/TheBible
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10	{{Trope}}s, divided by period:
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12	[[index]]
13	* OlderThanDirt -- Predating the Greek alphabet (circa 800 BC).
14	* OlderThanFeudalism -- First seen between the invention of the Greek alphabet (c. 800 BC) and the fall of the [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Western Roman Empire]] (476 AD).
15	* OlderThanPrint -- First seen between the end of the Western Roman Empire (476) and the invention of the [[UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg Gutenberg]] printing press (1439).
16	* OlderThanSteam -- First seen between the invention of the printing press (1439) and the steam engine (1698).
17	* OlderThanRadio -- First seen between the invention of the steam engine (1698) and the radio (1890).
18	* OlderThanTelevision -- First seen between the invention of the radio (1890) and the start of mass television (1939).
19	* OlderThanCableTV -- First seen between the rise of broadcast television (1939) and the rise of cable television (1980).
20	* OlderThanTheNES -- Predating the introduction of the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in the U.S. (1985). A special cutoff date for video games, since they're even more recent than television.
21	[[/index]]
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23	'''A historical note:''' Several of the listed milestones in tropes existed well prior to the appended dates but either had minimal impact or were lost in later years. For example, movable type blocks existed in Greece around 300 BC but did not have the same impact on history as the Gutenberg Press. OlderThanPrint is simply short-hand for the more accurate trope name, since [[OverlyLongName Older Than The Widespread Adoption Of Movable Type To The Point That It Had A Widespread And Irreversible Severance From The World As It Was Before]] is rather difficult to type.
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25	See also TheOldestTricksInTheBook, OlderThanTheyThink, and UrExample. Contrast TheNewestOnesInTheBook, tropes that have existed for a short period of time (1980 or otherwise). For the oldest ones in the wiki, see the TimeImmemorialIndex. Compare HouseholdNames, for fictional works so well-known, that it seems everyone knows about them.
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