History of billboards

  • 1450

    Movable Type Printing

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing which lead to modern advertising through a hand bill.
  • First illustrated poster

    The first illustrated poster was made when the lithographic process was perfected (a type of printing).

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