For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while non ...

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory.Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...

Well, now for another mind-melter ― there’s a very good reason why we call uppercase and lowercase letters what we do, and it’s because of the original printing presses.