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Name something the Germans invented without googling (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing...

[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Touche

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 week ago

Don't say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<