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Before Gutenberg et al, you had to have someone spend weeks or months to hand copy your book, one at a time. To me, the web is just the next step in the improv
by criley2 13y ago
Before Gutenberg et al, you had to have someone spend weeks or months to hand copy your book, one at a time.
To me, the web is just the next step in the improvement in the publishing of the written word. I don't see it as different than a book.
- bonobo 13y agoFirst time my in-laws saw "the book" they were trying to find information about vacation spots in Brazil but their grandpa's diaries were obsolete, I found a printed book a monk had written up about where the best places to stay and see were in Brazil. I could almost see the dots connect when they realized that someone they didn't know, in Brazil, had written up a piece of information at some point that they were now seeing and using, and many people could do that. It was like looking into the darkness and suddenly seeing a firefly blinking :-) ... My point here is, the printing press had it's impact, nobody denies that. Seeing the times changing is what leaved ChuckMcM's in-laws astounded.