Recently I was working on an new website promotion plan and I noticed that there were no content. Instead there was strange text, beginning with Lorem Ipsum…. It reminded me of Latin, but as I tried to translate it - it seemed to be some senceless set of words. I asked the designer who created the mockup if he knew what it meant & he explained to me that this was the text web-designers usually use to fill the site with before actual content is written, and that it means absolutely nothing. So I got interesed and googled for “lorem ipsum”. Many of you may laugh & say that it’s a common knowledge, but for me it was a discovery. So, in case I’m not the only one who doesn’t know that - here’s what I’ve found out.
“Lorem Ipsum” or “Lipsum” is a standard dummy text used in printing & typesetting industry since 1500, when an unknown printer used it to make a specimen book. It has not only survived for more than 500 years, remaining almost unchanged but it has leaped into electronic era! But what is even more astonishing - Lipsum is not just some abracadabra. It comes from a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, which makes it over 2000 years old. Latin professor Richard McClintock discovered its undoubtable source: Lorem Ipsum comes from “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.
But someone as ignorant as I were 
may ask: Why the heck should we use this? Why not simply type something like “text here - text there”? Right? But here comes the really common knowledge. Any readable content or text without normal distribution of letters will distract reader when he’s only trying to see the layout of the page. That’s it. If you’re interested in the source of lipsum, you may find some excrepts and translation “here”. And here’s the “almost” standard Lorem Ipsum passage, used since the 1500s
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do website design eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim seo ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut web development aliquip ex ea commodo web design consequat. Duis aute search engine optimization irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat offshore dedicated centre nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia web proramming deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”
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