Lorem Ipsum (Really)

Have you ever gone to a website that is not quite finished? Or seen a printer's proof of something that's not quite done? If so, you might have seen something like:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu
fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

Just jumbled text, right? Just random "fill-in" to give you the idea of what the page will look like when the real text is there? Think again...

Would you believe, the above quote was taken from broken pieces of a passage written by Cicero in Latin (before Christ walked the earth)? And that it may have been used by typesetters since the 1500s and is now programmed into several desktop publishing and web design software programs? Fascinating! I know, I'm a geek...

Granted, there are also lots of gobbledygook generators for web designers under the name of Loren Ipsum, some of which include Latin and some which do not. But the "classic" Lorem Ipsum is still very common. Here's some links to more info and some translation... http://www.lipsum.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

I often am researching history or literature while my husband is researching emerging technology. I didn't expect his work on a new website to bring up Cicero! :)