Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of printing presses and text files. 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 textbook specimen. Not only did it survive 500 years, but it also entered as filler text in electronic documents, remaining essentially the same as the original. It was popularized in the 1960s with the creation of Letraset sheets, which contained Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software such as Aldus PageMaker, which includes versions of Lorem Ipsum. Contrary to popular thought, Lorem Ipsum text is not simply random text. It has its roots in a classic piece of Latin literature, dating back to 45 BC, making it more than 2,000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at the University of Hampden-Sydney in Virginia, found one of the most obscure words in the Latin language, "consecteur," in a passage of Lorem Ipsum, and as he continued reading different Latin texts, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finnibus 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 The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum text used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions of the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
