Single space after a period at the end of a sentence

A good way to measure the generation gap.

Those people who learned to type on a typewriter had 'typing two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence ' beaten into them by frustrated old maids with licorice on their breath.

The kicking and screaming introduction of WYSIWYG (the first virtual reality) combined with word processing's in-built automatic kerning revealed just how gaping a hole those two spaces gave:

"Hey! That looks funny!"


Nowadays, just about everyone just types one space after a period at the end of a sentence, so if you find yourself chatting to a red-headed green-eyed coed on-line who double spaces after their full stops, don't be thinking you are so lucky.