No shame. Good ideas get reinvented and implemented frequently.
You can almost always find analogs to the most popular contemporary things dating back hundreds of years.
Hell look at European news parlors in the 1800s. The newspapers would be delivered by train and "influencers"
would be waiting at the station to rush to a specific popular cafe where they would hop up on the table, read the headlines and give their hot takes. Audiences would follow them by coming around daily as merchants hung out near the best ones selling produce.
Sound familiar?
The deeper you look into the past the more it's just the same stuff reinvented. It's crazy how similar some of the stuff is
You can almost always find analogs to the most popular contemporary things dating back hundreds of years.
Hell look at European news parlors in the 1800s. The newspapers would be delivered by train and "influencers" would be waiting at the station to rush to a specific popular cafe where they would hop up on the table, read the headlines and give their hot takes. Audiences would follow them by coming around daily as merchants hung out near the best ones selling produce.
Sound familiar?
The deeper you look into the past the more it's just the same stuff reinvented. It's crazy how similar some of the stuff is