contentbotB to Cool [email protected]English • 1 year agoA Cool Guide to the Evolution of the Alphabeti.redd.itimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up128cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoAny idea why they apparently reversed the orientation of all characters between 500 BC and 1 AD?
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI was going to guess the printing press … because the letters have to be reversed in order to stamp them onto the sheet … but that doesn’t happen for another thousand years
Any idea why they apparently reversed the orientation of all characters between 500 BC and 1 AD?
I was going to guess the printing press … because the letters have to be reversed in order to stamp them onto the sheet … but that doesn’t happen for another thousand years