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If I am not mistaken, hieroglyphs are still the writing system with the longest continuous history in writing. Please don't retreat to Instagram exclusively. I guess there are still a few people around who refuse to debase themselves to using moving-images-based social media.

No fear, professor! I'm not going anywhere. While I recognise the way the online winds blow, it's not a medium I at all feel comfortable in. The first point has interested me greatly: if we consider 'our' alphabet as separate, then I reckon, as it approaches 4,000 years old, it's taken the crown?

What’s the scope of "our“ here, with regards to taking *the* crown? Asking for Ukrainian and Greek friends.

Good to hear that! I think we have the moral obligation of fighting the rear-guard action of defending text-based social media. As for "our" alphabet, is it really 4000 years now? I'd rather go with the Greek-invented, phoneme-based writing system, which would now have around 2.800 years or so.

I've also made a video commemorating the date for the folks over on Instagram, because that's who I am nowadays. Filming myself and editing the video triggers all my insecurities one by one, so if they don't like it, I will cry.

Very good video. From a long time YouTuber, take it from me, you have a very good on camera presentation. 

We'll go over and give it a like. Please don't cry.

And because it had to be said,