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unusual facts about Movable type


Movable type

The uneven spacing of the impressions on brick stamps found in the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk and Larsa, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, has been conjectured by some archaeologists as evidence that the stamps were made using movable type.


Anil Dash

Previously an independent technology consultant and new media developer for the Village Voice, Dash was the first employee of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox, and served as its Vice President and Chief Evangelist until moving to Expert Labs.

History of printing in East Asia

The history of printing in East Asia starts with the use of woodblock printing on cloth during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and later paper (in Imperial Court as early as the 1st century, or around 80 AD), and continued with the invention of wooden movable type by East Asian artisans in Song China by the 11th century.

Master of the Playing Cards

Possibly the Master was in Mainz and was influenced by Johannes Gutenberg's movable type.

Odiogo

As of April 2008, the following platforms are supported: BlogEngine.Net, Blogger, Drupal, Joomla, MojoPortal, Movable Type, SquareSpace, Terapad, TypePad, WordPress.

Pingback

Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress, and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.


see also

Gutenprint

The name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press.

Johann and Wendelin of Speyer

The Speyer brothers are sometimes credited as the originators of the Roman type of character of movable type, other contenders being Pannartz and Sweynheim and Nicholas Jenson.

Thomas Franklin Carter

Pelliot took an immediate interest in the subject, bringing from his desk drawer a box full of movable type in Chinese characters, hundreds of years older than Gutenberg's, which he had found on a cave floor.

Typecasting

Casting of sorts (movable type pieces) for use in printing presses