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Have you ever tweeted something before that you think is so awesome and wanted to remember for life? Sure, it can be on your twitter account but as you continue to tweet daily, that special tweet will soon be buried.

How about preserving your tweet in a Cuneiform tablet? The new online service, Dumb Cuneiform will make sure that your tweets are well-preserved.

"You send us your most ephemeral and worthless communications, and we'll carefully transcribe them into the most long-lasting medium known to man -- a clay tablet," reads the Dumb Cuneiform site. "Favorite jokes? Amazing pickup lines? Your two-star review of last summer's blockbuster? Keep it forever."

It's "really, really for real," Matt Kirkland, creator of Dumb Cuneiform said. "I have clay under my fingernails right now. I got as far back as these old cuneiform tablets, but found out they are mostly receipts, accounts, short messages -- super pedestrian, quotidian stuff. This is like reading somebody's tweets or texts, I thought. And then I knew what I had to do. I loved the joke."

Although on Dumb Cuneiform's Twitter, its location is said to be Mesopotamia, the company is actually Lawrence, Kansas based. Kirkland and his wife, Erica translate the tweets using a printout of Old Persian characters.

The couple would then hand carved the symbols to tablets using Old Stone Age tools like sharp sticks and use fire to harden the clay. The tablets take around a week or two for it to be made. It measures an average of 3 inches and weighs around 4 ounces.

A Dumb Cuneiform tablet costs $20 which includes shipping in the US. Shipping in other countries costs an extra $10.