The phrase
"moveable type" refers to a method of printing where individual letters and characters are made separate and can be rearranged to create different words and sentences. It was a significant invention in the history of printing that allowed for faster and more efficient production of books and documents.
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From the invention
of moveable type in 1450, all the way to mobile ads and online videos, advertising has come a long way.
Moveable type in the western world in the 1400's (yes, the East had it first, but it didn't cross the ocean until decades later) was a huge deal.
The first
moveable type presses were developed in China, but most people credit Johannes Gutenberg with the first press that allowed large - scale publication.
Expect to see designs dating back to 1377 when Buddhists printed the first text
with moveable type right through to the National Socialist German Workers» Party icon — the symbol of the Nazis, and more recently Paula Scher's «Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk» theatre poster.
The manuscript was hand - crafted in the mid-15th century, which is at almost the exact time that German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg developed the
first moveable type printing press, thereby revolutionising how knowledge was recorded, copied and shared.
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The URL is unchanged, but the RSS feed has shifted along with the site's migration
from Moveable Type to Word Press.
The ramifications of real - time communications — instantly connecting every human on earth with every other human on earth — are even more important than the invention
of moveable type and the printing press more than 500 years ago.
I imagine folks were pretty upset
with moveable type and the Gutenberg press... After all, what if these developments in content delivery put the monks out of business?
Students with access to
moveable type printing presses would delight in composing anthologies of short stories or news tid - bits and running off a hundred copies or so.
the primacy given to the written word is predominantly a western european / north american phenomenon — and one that really only took hold after the invention of printing presses and
moveable type.
Moveable type, often thought of as the key invention of Gutenberg, actually was in use in China by the eleventh century.
The next leap in communication technology came some five thousand years after the invention of writing, but a mere four hundred years after the invention of
moveable type.
I started with HTML, I used Frontpage, Dreamweaver,
Moveable Type, and even Drupal!
And while the Story of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest written stories (around 2700 - 2500 BCE), it took thousands of years for Johannes Gutenberg to make books easier to print with his advancements in
moveable type.
What will be left in its wake will be a transformation not seen since Gutenberg's invention of
moveable type.
There's been a certain level of excitement about Amazon's Kindle Serials announcement, including articles like this one from Jason Allen Ashlock on Digital Book World (in which, by the way,
Moveable Type is announcing a serial of its own).
The creative process, although completely modernised, greatly resembles the woodblock printing of the incunabula, books printed before the invention of
the moveable type.
If you're looking for a new architecture, I recommend checking out these content management platforms: WordPress, Blogger, and
Moveable Type.
The last such change occured through the introduction of
moveable type and the printing press, thus transforming the world of knowledge.