How movable types turned into computer bytes
By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-09 08:43
Human movable types come alive at last night's opening ceremony. Yang Lei |
At yesterday's dazzling Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, China's invention of printing 1,968 years ago was celebrated by thousands of performers hoisting tiles bearing Chinese characters above their heads. These squares symbolized the imprinted clay blocks used during the infancy of Chinese printing. It was also a reminder of how far Chinese printing has come into the computer age.
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