Maybe I’m just way out of touch with reality, but I didn’t really have a clue about this. How many of you knew that the standard text used in all kinds of applications is actually latin and has been in use for this very purpose for over 5 centuries!

You can read more at the link below, but essentially this was developed with typesetting back in the 16th century. Essentially it has a lot of Latin, most of it traced back to its original source back in 45 BC.

For all this time I thought someone had just set down and created garbage and the industry had just adopted it. Nope, it’s been with us for ages. Just a bit of information I thought I would share along.

Visit the official Lorem Ipsum website here for complete details and history.