500 years ago a disgruntled Catholic priest named Martin Luther is said to have nailed his handwritten 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg. Well, maybe he did, but that 1517 parchment blog post, with the clickbait title Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum, was picked up by the cool kids of the day, nerds who translated it from Latin to German, coded it into moveable type and spread it across Europe with their newfangled printing presses.
More:
“How Technology Helped Martin Luther Change Christianity,” Tom Gjelten, NPR
“Long Before Twitter, Martin Luther Was a Media Pioneer,” New York Times
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