BEFORE ZUCKERBERG, GUTENBERG.

The article discusses about the evolution of printing press. Topics includes the comparison of printing industry in Venice to the Silicon Valley was initiated by Elizabeth Eisenstein. Her books "The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, and "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change" was published in 1979, before personal computers and the internet came into existence. The printing industry lead to concepts of copyright and intellectual property, rise in literacy, eyeglass and lensmaking.