Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley

Very popular during the Renaissance. The first book software line of Lorem Ipsum publishing comes from a line in section

It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently 

Scrambled it to make a type specimen book with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions Ipsum.