CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters

The ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from?

Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder...

Who came first? Was it those rambunctious CAPITALIZERS or the fancy but timid minusculizers?

Who made scripts join forces to form one superalphabet? Roman soldiers? Medieval scribes? Are camels to blame for CamelCase?

Why does something about these letters remind me of Arabic, even though Arabic doesn't capitalize its letters?

Word of the day: bicameral. Sorry, BiCaMeRaL. You'll see.

CREDITS
Art, animation and music by NativLang

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Greek inscription at Korykian, Zde
Forum inscription with lizard, Anthony M from Rome
Carolingian minuscule, Beinecke Digital Collections
Codex Aureus, Vitold Muratov
Mt. Athos Dionys. Cod. 587
Cyril and Methodius, Radek Linner
Old Bulgarian alphabet, Vakots7
Russian Azbuka Benois
Oifig na bPassana, Jnestorius
Syriac Sertâ manuscript, Schøyen Collection MS 577

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