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Originally posted by Triton
However, before the radio, the printed word was the primary source of entertainment all the way back to 1450 when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. The printed word couldn't possibly have been the primary source of entertainment at a time when the great majority of people was unable to read and books were still rather expensive. Reading didn't really become that widespread until about the nineteenth century when a large number of people were actually able to read. Before that, the "primary source of entertainment" as you call it would have been dancing and music - yes, there was music
before the invention of the radio.