I am 38. I was learned in private school that there is always two spaces after a sentence ending period.
When did it change and what are they teaching now?
Beats me, darlin’. I use two spaces after a period like my mamma taught me. Of course, I also write colour and honour...
I’ve always preferred two spaces. HTML forces a single space, no matter what you type. That is SO annoying.
Blame it on the inter-web. Basically when writing HTML code in order to add 2 spaces after a period requires an extra character ( - non-breaking space). You can put as many spaces as you want, but HTML will show only one. I always thought the double space after the period was similar to double spacing your papers. It was so the teacher had room for notes while grading.
The same can be said about indenting a paragraph. You rarely see that any longer. It's the same scenario there as with period spacing. In code you have to put 5 characters for indention. Back in the modem and ISDN days a document full of those extraneous spaces might mean a loss of valuable download performance.