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The printing press seems like it could have been invented 8,000 years ago easily

Why did it take so long?
Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy
  07/14/26
Fraud
talking wine rigor
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Poppy stock car
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talking wine rigor
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Superior anglo culture bro
soul-stirring underhanded rigpig
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Spectacular ocher hospital
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Stimulating fishy theatre
  07/14/26
yeah no
naked meetinghouse goyim
  07/14/26
Why not? Ancients had letters/symbols, metal, ink, and paper...
Poppy stock car
  07/14/26
The paper Gutenberg used was made from cloth fibers. It was ...
Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy
  07/14/26
Are we talking a gutenberg type press or something equivalen...
naked meetinghouse goyim
  07/14/26
If they had cloth they could have made paper. You don't need...
Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy
  07/14/26
correct that you don't need trees. does not follow that ther...
naked meetinghouse goyim
  07/14/26
Early Roman Empire is probably the earliest for something re...
naked meetinghouse goyim
  07/14/26
(L. Sprague de Camp)
Orchid adventurous associate brethren
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Sumerian news boy knocking you unconscious by throwing morni...
Overrated Provocative Stage
  07/14/26
Shoulda asked NSAM!
Crimson selfie
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Date: July 14th, 2026 12:40 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy

Why did it take so long?

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Date: July 14th, 2026 2:29 AM
Author: talking wine rigor

Fraud

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Date: July 14th, 2026 11:59 AM
Author: Poppy stock car



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Date: July 17th, 2026 12:38 AM
Author: talking wine rigor



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Date: July 14th, 2026 12:42 AM
Author: soul-stirring underhanded rigpig

Superior anglo culture bro

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:32 AM
Author: Spectacular ocher hospital



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Date: July 14th, 2026 12:03 PM
Author: Stimulating fishy theatre



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Date: July 14th, 2026 12:49 AM
Author: naked meetinghouse goyim

yeah no

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:25 AM
Author: Poppy stock car

Why not? Ancients had letters/symbols, metal, ink, and paper-like stuff.

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:34 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy

The paper Gutenberg used was made from cloth fibers. It was stupid easy. He got the idea for the machine from looking at German wine presses

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:37 AM
Author: naked meetinghouse goyim

Are we talking a gutenberg type press or something equivalent to a stamp? 6000 BCE had people who could carve a design and repeatedly impress it into clay. Engraved stamp seals are known from the seventh millennium BCE. A press for mass producing written pages is a different thing and none of the shit needed existed. For instance you mention "paper-like stuff". The earliest known papyrus rolls are like maybe 3000 BCE. The type of ink that can be used for printing did not exist at all back then, in order for gutenberg to work it needed all kinds of innovations in oil based ink. The metal type needed was not realistic for the time (need standardization and repeatable castign). And also they didn't even having writing yet. Earliest full writing systems were like 3K BCE.

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:39 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy ladyboy

If they had cloth they could have made paper. You don't need trees

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:46 AM
Author: naked meetinghouse goyim

correct that you don't need trees. does not follow that therefore anyone who had cloth could easily have invented paper.

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Date: July 14th, 2026 1:53 AM
Author: naked meetinghouse goyim

Early Roman Empire is probably the earliest for something recognizably like a printing press (50-200 AD). I think you could have had simple block printing a little earlier, like think a Roman or late-hellenistic workshop carving an entire page in relief on wood or another material, inked it and pressed papyrus on it. Mechanical page printing though, Early Roman empire. For movable metal type maybe late Roman Empire from 200-400 AD, but still unlikely. Roman metallurgy probably could produce the individual letter pieces. They definitely could cast bronze letters, but movable type is a lot harder than that. That's probably the absolute lower bound for something like a Gutenberg-like system. But still really unlikely. Would say 800-1200 AD is a good estimate for when it really became feasible.

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Date: July 14th, 2026 11:13 AM
Author: Orchid adventurous associate brethren

(L. Sprague de Camp)

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Date: July 14th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: Overrated Provocative Stage

Sumerian news boy knocking you unconscious by throwing morning Babylonian Times clay tablet

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Date: July 14th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: Crimson selfie

Shoulda asked NSAM!

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Date: July 14th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: wild jewess step-uncle's house



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Date: July 17th, 2026 12:28 PM
Author: Crimson selfie



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Date: July 17th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Alcoholic parlor marketing idea



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