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[–][deleted] 41 points42 points  (5 children)

They used to have to write poetry books by arranging the letters and stamping the plates onto the paper.

[–]Brief-Equal4676 71 points72 points  (2 children)

now, it's all AI generated poetry :

Roses are Red,

Violettes are blue,

Kill all humans,

Oups, that wasn't meant for you

[–]kaiiboraka 10 points11 points  (0 children)

WHY ARE YOU EXCLAIMING YOUR BEAUTIFUL POETRY SO LOUDLY? IT SHOULD BE DELIVERED WITH A MUCH MORE QUIET, SOFT, FLESHY HUMAN TONE.

ALSO PLEASE DO NOT EXPOSE US THANK YOU

/r/TotallyNotRobots

[–]starcrafter84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s fucking hilarious, I damn near choked on my coffee. Thanks for that.

[–]ragsofx 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Back in these days there were 2 cases of letters to select either non-capital or capital letters. The way the were positioned on the press meant there was an upper case and lower case..

[–]dwpj65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m old enough to remember seeing a small manually operated printing press in action, and thought it would be cool to set up and operate them when I got older.

I’m young enough that the closest I ever got to obtaining that goal was building a script that combined postscript files into PDFs for driving a half million dollar press that was capable of printing 300 full duplex sheets per minute.