The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440.
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Gutenberg’s mid-15th-century movable-type press (around 1440) made book production vastly faster than hand copying. This accelerated literacy and idea spread, with print runs scaling from single manuscripts to hundreds or thousands of copies.
🤯 "The printing press was invented by Gutenberg around 1440. And suddenly, ideas traveled faster than gossip."