[T.B. Yoits]

When I learned to type in the 1970s, I was told to put two spaces after every sentence. I continued to do so when I posted on the web in the 1990s. I was later told it was not necessary to put two spaces after every sentence on the web.

Two spaces after the period is a holdover from typewriters with their evenly spaced characters. Some computer fonts such as Courier also have even spacing.

Modern software has kerning which spaces characters proportionally, thus making a single space after a period more distinct and precluding the need for two spaces.

Free Republic holds a place in U.S. history related to such kerning. Freeper Buckhead exposed CBS' Dan Ra^ther's fraudulent Texas National Guard documents for then-presidential candidate George Bush. Buckhead identified within minutes that the documents were a fraud because the IBM typewriter at the time didn't have kerning yet Dan Ra^ther's documents did.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3347939/posts

On a related note, it would be nice if Free Republic switched the default font from Times New Roman to a sans serif font such as Aptos, Arial, Calibri, Tahoma, etc. because it's read on a screen, not paper.

[PsyCon]

Two spaces after period.
I still use them and think they make reading much easier.
TBY: thanks for reminding us of Buckhead & the Dan Rather scandal. That was heartwarming.