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Who invented the internet?
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Who invented the internet?

Gutenberg collapsed the cost of copying. The internet collapsed the cost of distribution — the same shockwave, five hundred and fifty years later.

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Gutenberg’s press collapsed the cost of copying a page. Five and a half centuries later, the internet collapsed the cost of distributing one — to everyone, instantly, for nearly nothing. This is the second printing press, and its shockwave is the one you are living inside.

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