Paper was invented roughly around the year 100 in the Common Era.
By the year 800 (700 years later), Harun al-Rashid was leveraging the import of the Chinese technology of paper to Baghdad. By the year 1440 (640 years later) Gutenberg was using it.

Now in the year 2023 (583 years later) I have an e-ink display that imitates its functions, its dynamic responsiveness to ink, its folio format, etc.

"A trace of the true self exists in the false self," as the meme says.