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[–] Anti_Face_Weapon 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Jumpingspiderman 1 points 2 months ago

The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

Don't say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<