Then you're looking at the wrong cultural. The classic culturals had trivials of around 135.
And like I said, this isn't irrefutable proof. It's the closest we're going to come to it though. There was cultural in classic, It's not hypothetical. I was there, I made the stuff. I could dig up proof day in and day out in minor ways that could be nitpicked apart individually, but if you step back from the details and see the bigger picture that I painted with the pieces of the puzzle that still exist on the web, it all fits together snugly and makes perfect sense. But no one is going to be able to dig up proof that there wasn't cultural in classic, because there was. Eqtraders doesn't go back far enough, Castersrealm isn't a tradeskill site, they updated their site two times in the span of the year from inception to Kunark.
But this doesn't fall in line with something from November 13, 2000 at all. You don't have community data from a massive collaborative project on the web at a non-tradeskill website, available for public digestion, 5 months before the patch comes out. It goes the other way around. The content goes live, the community scrambles to piece it together, and then months down the road you have your documentation.
The devs didn't even like people knowing what their spells did. Most of classic is veiled in obscurity, and tradeskills were slow to be documented, sites were slow to be updated. The first date you see a spell listed doesn't mean that's when it went into the game. Check the first time you see Kunark spells listed on there, Kunark went live well before that.
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