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To: SunkenCiv

The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.


4 posted on 10/15/2011 9:10:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
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To: cripplecreek

I wholeheartedly agree.

OTOH, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were both first published in longhand. :’)


5 posted on 10/15/2011 9:15:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cripplecreek

And now internet.

When you think about it The Canterbury Tales isn’t really THAT much different from.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


8 posted on 10/15/2011 9:27:33 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: cripplecreek
The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Yup... right under beer, tobacco, cheese, and sausage (the four food groups)...

10 posted on 10/15/2011 9:38:18 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: cripplecreek
The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Yes, but there's nothing quite like a book written on vellum using blood and horse urine ink.

12 posted on 10/15/2011 9:50:46 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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