Why did it take so long?	cracking background story whorehouse	07/14/26
Fraud	big godawful sneaky criminal	07/14/26
...	garnet up-to-no-good affirmative action	07/14/26
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Superior anglo culture bro	peach mad-dog skullcap water buffalo	07/14/26
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...	Metal Bronze Orchestra Pit	07/14/26
yeah no	Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market	07/14/26
Why not? Ancients had letters/symbols, metal, ink, and paper...	garnet up-to-no-good affirmative action	07/14/26
The paper Gutenberg used was made from cloth fibers. It was ...	cracking background story whorehouse	07/14/26
Are we talking a gutenberg type press or something equivalen...	Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market	07/14/26
If they had cloth they could have made paper. You don't need...	cracking background story whorehouse	07/14/26
correct that you don't need trees. does not follow that ther...	Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market	07/14/26
Early Roman Empire is probably the earliest for something re...	Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market	07/14/26
(L. Sprague de Camp)	Nubile range	07/14/26
Sumerian news boy knocking you unconscious by throwing morni...	mewling sticky sandwich	07/14/26
Shoulda asked NSAM!	bateful goal in life alpha	07/14/26
...	Flushed Friendly Grandma Property	07/14/26
...	bateful goal in life alpha	07/17/26
...	Idiotic candlestick maker shitlib	07/17/26

Date: July 14th, 2026 12:40 AM Author: cracking background story whorehouse Why did it take so long? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998216)

Date: July 14th, 2026 2:29 AM Author: big godawful sneaky criminal Fraud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998292)

Date: July 14th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: garnet up-to-no-good affirmative action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998887)

Date: July 17th, 2026 12:38 AM Author: big godawful sneaky criminal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#50005615)

Date: July 14th, 2026 12:42 AM Author: peach mad-dog skullcap water buffalo Superior anglo culture bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998217)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:32 AM Author: fishy ungodly locus legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998258)

Date: July 14th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: Metal Bronze Orchestra Pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998898)

Date: July 14th, 2026 12:49 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market yeah no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998222)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:25 AM Author: garnet up-to-no-good affirmative action Why not? Ancients had letters/symbols, metal, ink, and paper-like stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998257)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:34 AM Author: cracking background story whorehouse The paper Gutenberg used was made from cloth fibers. It was stupid easy. He got the idea for the machine from looking at German wine presses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998259)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:37 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market Are we talking a gutenberg type press or something equivalent to a stamp? 6000 BCE had people who could carve a design and repeatedly impress it into clay. Engraved stamp seals are known from the seventh millennium BCE. A press for mass producing written pages is a different thing and none of the shit needed existed. For instance you mention "paper-like stuff". The earliest known papyrus rolls are like maybe 3000 BCE. The type of ink that can be used for printing did not exist at all back then, in order for gutenberg to work it needed all kinds of innovations in oil based ink. The metal type needed was not realistic for the time (need standardization and repeatable castign). And also they didn't even having writing yet. Earliest full writing systems were like 3K BCE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998261)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:39 AM Author: cracking background story whorehouse If they had cloth they could have made paper. You don't need trees (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998263)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:46 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market correct that you don't need trees. does not follow that therefore anyone who had cloth could easily have invented paper. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998271)

Date: July 14th, 2026 1:53 AM Author: Insanely Creepy Striped Hyena Market Early Roman Empire is probably the earliest for something recognizably like a printing press (50-200 AD). I think you could have had simple block printing a little earlier, like think a Roman or late-hellenistic workshop carving an entire page in relief on wood or another material, inked it and pressed papyrus on it. Mechanical page printing though, Early Roman empire. For movable metal type maybe late Roman Empire from 200-400 AD, but still unlikely. Roman metallurgy probably could produce the individual letter pieces. They definitely could cast bronze letters, but movable type is a lot harder than that. That's probably the absolute lower bound for something like a Gutenberg-like system. But still really unlikely. Would say 800-1200 AD is a good estimate for when it really became feasible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998274)

Date: July 14th, 2026 11:13 AM Author: Nubile range (L. Sprague de Camp) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998734)

Date: July 14th, 2026 10:41 AM Author: mewling sticky sandwich Sumerian news boy knocking you unconscious by throwing morning Babylonian Times clay tablet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998679)

Date: July 14th, 2026 10:41 AM Author: bateful goal in life alpha Shoulda asked NSAM! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998682)

Date: July 14th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Flushed Friendly Grandma Property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#49998879)

Date: July 17th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: bateful goal in life alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#50006419)

Date: July 17th, 2026 12:22 PM Author: Idiotic candlestick maker shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5882549&forum_id=2/en-en#50006397)