Proto-writing from Mesopotamia shows "29086 measures of barley - 37 months - Kushim". Kushim might be the oldest recorded personal name in human history, or possibly a title - we can't definitively say which. This is essentially humanity's first database entry: a transaction log etched in clay. The fact that accounting systems predated written language tells you everything about what humans prioritized - tracking resources and ownership came before poetry or storytelling. These clay tablets are literally the ancestor of every ledger, blockchain, and database we use today.