CS100 Lecture 7: The Printing Press2
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News did not begin with printing press: hearing from someone else, paintings. Church networks: the vatican: seed of the catholic church, huge network, bishops underneath pope, everyone gathered in one space once a week, invasion, emperors, etc. Heads of state: had control and access to less people than the pope did. Banking networks family in florence, controlled businesses: top down structure. Traders: small scale, going place to place selling things and carrying information, to(cid:396)y telle(cid:396)s, (cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ts, (cid:271)allad si(cid:374)ge(cid:396)s, (cid:271)a(cid:272)k a(cid:374)d fo(cid:396)th o(cid:374) ki(cid:374)g"s (cid:396)oads. First postal service: louis xi in france 1464: first to have the idea. 15th to 17th centuries: partial postal services proliferate: not interaction between other networks, (cid:448)e(cid:396)y p(cid:396)es(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)es (cid:374)et(cid:449)o(cid:396)ks did(cid:374)"t link up. German and dutch cities: cologne, frankfurt, antwerp, berlin: city in which the story is found, even if its regarding somewhere else, where the correspondent files, remnant. Corantos: what early news sheets were called.
