For thousands of years, books were copied by hand, making them rare and accessible only to a privileged few. Everything changed when Johannes Gutenberg experimented with movable type and developed the printing press, enabling thousands of identical copies to be produced quickly. The first printed Bible demonstrated the power of this new technology, and books soon spread across Europe. Decades later, Martin Luther used the printing press to rapidly distribute his Ninety-five Theses, igniting the Reformation. The appearance of the first regularly published newspaper then transformed print into a daily source of news. This campaign shows how a single invention revolutionized education, religion, and communication, laying the foundations of the modern information age.
