Spreading of Printing
Printing has been spreading for quite a while. The first printing press was charr-made, and the Durmand Priory began using the invention themselves for quite a while too. Humans are known to have converted old wine distilleries into such (similar to our own typography history).
I don’t think we have an exact date for the invention of the printing press in Tyria, just that all the races unified into using New Krytan in 1105 AE with the Durmand Priory’s guidance. But we know that the printing press has existed for several years – if not several decades – by now. Every writing we see, or rather almost all of it, aren’t done by hand but by print.
It doesn’t surprise me that type writers of such an antique design are in use. Though I don’t think such has been seen before.
As for why there are more keys than 26 is because you have the decibal numeral system (0-9) and punctuation symbols (period, comma, colon, semi-colon, hyphen, exclamation point, question mark, quotation mark, etc.).
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Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
(edited by Konig Des Todes.2086)
Yes I was aware that printing was a thing before, I just didn’t know it was that accessible though, my bad I guess :p