&lt;p&gt;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 &quot;de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum&quot; (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, &quot;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..&quot;, comes from a line in section 
1.10.32.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is
 reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 
from &quot;de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum&quot; by Cicero are also reproduced in 
their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914
 translation by H. Rackham.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;/p&gt;