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========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:34:55 -0700
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Merry Maisel <maisel@SDSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Greeked-in text"
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
The Latin-ish gibberish does not come from the world of computers and programming but from the world of designers and printing immediately preceding, as the use of the word "dummy" suggests. "Dummies" were mock-ups of a finished product that had usually not been written yet, hence no real text was used. Designers would "dummy up" a cover and inside spread to show the customer what the finished printed document would look like. I saw such "dummies" in the 1960s in the publishing industry, well before computer composition was in general use. I don't know where they began, however. First place I'd check would be a history of graphic design...
Merry Maisel
maisel@sdsc.edu
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Merry Maisel <maisel@SDSC.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Greeked-in text"
X-To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc@cloud9.net>
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______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
The Latin-ish gibberish does not come from the world of computers and programming but from the world of designers and printing immediately preceding, as the use of the word "dummy" suggests. "Dummies" were mock-ups of a finished product that had usually not been written yet, hence no real text was used. Designers would "dummy up" a cover and inside spread to show the customer what the finished printed document would look like. I saw such "dummies" in the 1960s in the publishing industry, well before computer composition was in general use. I don't know where they began, however. First place I'd check would be a history of graphic design...
Merry Maisel
maisel@sdsc.edu
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