 community poll internet speeds from around the world in 2013 admin s blog 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 hampdensydney 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 11032 and 11033 of de finibus bonorum et malorum 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 lorem ipsum dolor sit amet comes from a line in section 11032 music tag 1 tag 3 tag 8 lorem 