Lorem Ipsum is placeholder text used in the typesetting and printing industry. It has been the standard placeholder text since the 16th century, when an anonymous printer took a set of type and assembled it to create a sample text. It has survived not only for over five centuries but also the transition to digital typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It gained popularity in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing passages of Lorem Ipsum, and more recently through desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker, which included versions of Lorem Ipsum.