[VKScott]

I'm sure when the printing press was first invented, (old) people thought that it was just a dumb fad and handwritten books were the one true god.

You're not far off.

The Italian humanist Hieronimo Squarciafico worried that the easy availability of books would lead to intellectual laziness, making men "less studious" and weakening their minds.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/