Modern movable type printing was developed in Christian Europe in the mid-15th century. (There had been some earlier examples of such in Asia.) It was immediately applied to religious and secular documents in the Christian world and Jewish worlds. But in the Muslim world, religious authorities prevented them from being used until the 18th century even though Arabic texts were being printed in Christian Europe and smuggled into the Ottoman Empire and even thought the Ottoman Empire permitted Christians and Jews to use printing presses.
What became of Islam is well known to us all and the reactionary bias against printing is a major contributing factor. Let us not repeat the same error regarding the internet that Islam made with printing.