On 17/08/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
OMG COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
:p
Remarkably, it seems that Wikipedia was already being used so extensively by 2004. Back then, we were big, but...I didn't really expect the first example of lorem ipsum to date back so early.
It's not from 2004, I'm afraid - it's a little odd that the *text* is, though. (That sentence was subtly modified in 2004, getting a semicolon and a rephrase after "metaphor", so we can date the variant used) The device was released in 2005, and the box is showing a version running "OS 2006" (which included the IM functionality); this dates the packaging to May 2006 or later.
Google finds a few copies of the 2004 text here and there; presumably it got out in a database dump. I can only assume they reused it from there...