What we’re the major effects of the invention of the printing press

The printing press was followed by the typewriter, the telegraph, the photocopier, printer and scanner. The computer with its programmable core evolved from a mechanical loom that took programmable patterns fed into it on punch cards. Early computer programs were translated into punch cards and computers using this system for input still existed in the 1960s. The Internet resulted from US Department of Defense research into linking computers together. Once the idea had been tested, the Internet took fifty years to develop into the global knowledge network we know today.