Paper or pixels?

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press in the mid 1400s, many scribes throughout Europe probably freaked out about their jobs. Until Gutenberg came up with the idea of movable type and printing pages, everything was handwritten by scribes who wrote on vellum, aka animal skin. Paper wasn’t as nearly as easy to come by, but things changed dramatically with Gutenberg’s invention 

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