MUD Mired in time...

MUD: Walking ? [from the bottom – up] Where is the bottom? Right here... in the mud. ==================> From so long ago, that nobody has a clue as to who first used footprints for a defined purpose. Probably it was trackers armed with clubs and spears? Let's face it, many of those really old foot prints look a bit like hands. Our footprints evolved as we did. The enlightened need to tack specificity onto just about everything led to a tsunami of measurements generating sciency walking terms. Those terms were spiced with more than a pinch of conjecture, especially when foot prints were odd looking. Stop here. Go to the internet and do a search for footprint measurements. You will find endless mud tracks, inked foot prints on rolled out paper, prints on pressure sensitive paper, digital sensor walkways taking pixel type footprints, and on & on and on. There's even AI footprints. Had to be. Did you see all that? Crazy huh? All that measuring and terminology to every minimal nuance of mud prints... wow. And what has it given us? Well, mostly (hunters aside) some good detective novel content which captured bad guys who seem to always have a peculiar walking footprint oddity - as seen in the mud.