Paper first penetrated Europe as a commodity in the tenth century from the Islamic world. Certainly as Muslim armies ventured further into European countries such as Spain, the technology was brought with them. In addition, trade routes involving Italian seaports that had active commercial relations with the Arab world and overland routes from Spain to France were vehicles that spread papermaking techniques throughout Europe. Papermaking centers were originally established in Italy by 1275 and later came to other nations. However, paper came slowly to the rest of Europe and it was not until the fifteenth century that it came into widespread use.
Paper lowers the cost of writing and makes it possible to incorporate the local vulgar dialects into written documents. Hence the people of a particular region become literate in their own region where the dialects are spoken. Latin is no longer official.
This was the situation with Spanish, a mix of the formal rules but including the local dialects, which were pushed out on parchment material because of cost.
Advances in communication technology widens the bandwidth, allows a larger symbol set.
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