The standard Lorem Ipsum passage has been a printer's ally for centuries. Like stock photos today, it served as a placeholder for real content. The original text comes from Cicero's philosophical work "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum," written in 45 BC.

The use of Lorem Ipsum dates back to the 1500s. When printers required painstaking typesetting by hand, workers needed something to show customers how their pages would look. To save time, they turned to Cicero's words, creating specimen books with predefined paragraphs.

However, it wasn't until the 1960s that the passage became common, when Letraset revolutionized the advertising industry with its transfer sheets. These innovative sheets allowed designers to apply pre-printed Lorem Ipsum text in various fonts and formats directly to their mockups and prototypes.