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.