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November 19, 2004
Lorem ipsum dolor
In a former life I was a freelance artworker and designer. When laying out text I followed typesetting tradition and inserted some seemingly meaningless Latin text in lieu of final copy. Quite why 'lorem ipsum dolor' was used, I had no idea. Until now.
According to the useful little site Lorem Ipsum:
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.
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.
Most usefully, the site has a Lorem Ipsum generator. Just decide how many paragraphs you want and out it comes: instant content.
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