- Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's - standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to - make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic - typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset - sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker - including versions of Lorem Ipsum. -
-- It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking - at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, - as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing - packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' - will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes - by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like). -
-- Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin - literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney - College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, - and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum - comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by - Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. - The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32. -
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