Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over one years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words consectetur. Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over one years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words consectetur.