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Jimbo tells Wikipedians: You CAN'T vote to disable 'key software features'

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: @lurker

"He invented movable type which made things easier and cheaper. Someone else would have come up with the same idea sooner or later."

Probably. The Disc of Phaistos is generally reckoned to have used movable type. It predates Gutenberg by about 3 millenia.

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