Twitter Thread: Hardback Books Exist Because of Cheese, Snails and Underwear

Twitter user Incunabula gets into the technological steps that eventually led to hardback books. History has a weird habit of being an almost arbitrary domino effect of one kind of behavior allowing for some kind of technology that opens up a whole new industry or way of thinking. Kinda cool. For another intriguing thing, here's a twitter thread on the Appalachian mountains being older than most things.

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