# Greatest contribution to the spread of media?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 26, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-contribution-to-the-spread-of-media/457847 "2008-07-26T15:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mikefondosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@mikefondosu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikefondosu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-contribution-to-the-spread-of-media/457847/1 "2008-07-26T15:44:18Z")
Which advancement in media had the greatest impact on people? It can be from any time period; i.e. invention of paper, internet, alphabet, facebook, myspace, this forum, ABC…ANYTHING!! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-contribution-to-the-spread-of-media/457847/2 "2008-07-26T16:12:54Z")
You can’t have the same thread here and in GD. And the answer is Guttenberg’s press. ---
**Author:** ![mikefondosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@mikefondosu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikefondosu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-contribution-to-the-spread-of-media/457847/3 "2008-07-26T16:23:10Z")
thank you…I was wondering that when I was posting b/c im a beginner at this. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-contribution-to-the-spread-of-media/457847/4 "2008-07-26T22:58:53Z")
Closing duplicate thread.