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.
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.
