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i'm jenn. i like to type in lower case letters. do you know why they are called "lower case letters?"

let me tell you a story:

back in the day, before the wonderful worlds of typewriters and computers, there was a thing called mechanical printing. this is the process type setters would use to create words, sentences, and paragraphs that were to be pressed into paper to create things such as newspapers and books. to do this, they would combine wooden or metal blocks that had one letter each. Those letters, being both uppercase and lowercase, were kept in a case, one being above the other. can you guess which part of the case each were stored? the upper case letters were kept in the top drawer (the upper case) and the lower case letters were kept in the bottom drawer (the lower case).

i'm jenn, i'm a graphic design student, and i find things that most people would find boring to be terribly interesting.