![]() ![]() Gutenberg essentially invented the printing industry by replacing handwritten letters with blocks of type. Making a second copy of a book involved hiring a scribe to copy the entire book again by hand. There was no printing as we know it today. And for all of that, even in this brief history of word processing, it’s helpful to very briefly go back a few centuries to when Johannes Gutenberg in 1439 invented moveable type.īefore Gutenberg, all books were completely handwritten. To get the answers to those questions, you need to know a bit more about the history of typing and the history of word processing, including the history of word processing software (and inevitably Microsoft Word). Read next: Behind the orange icon: the history of PowerPoint Going back to Gutenberg Confidence in my typing gave me confidence in everything else.”įast forward nearly four decades, and you might be asking “Why wasn’t he allowed to look at the keys?” or “Who cares about the quick fox and the lazy dog?” or even more fundamentally, “What’s a typewriter?” “I developed a reputation as a fleet writer when really I was a fleet typist. According to Bruni, who has been a Times White House reporter, Rome bureau chief and restaurant critic and is the author of three best-selling books-his ability to get started as a writer owed much to his fluid abilities as a typist. ![]()
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