On 17 December 1903, the first controlled powered flight lasted 12 seconds and covered about 37 meters, less than the wingspan of a modern airliner. On 20 July 1969, humans walked on the Moon. Someone born the year of that first flight could watch the Moon landing on TV at 65.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.