Everyone remembers being taught to double space after your ending punctuation in sentences. While many students from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s were never completely sure why that was a hard and fast rule, we still did it when typing on typewriters and then the computer. And for decades, it was the most common practice that was hard habit. But all of your childhood lessons might just go up in smoke. The reason we originally began double spacing after periods was due to the mechanics of a typewriter. Before personal computers were a twinkle in anyone’s eye, the typewriter was the go to keyboarding component. Because of how the text looked on paper, a double space after a period spaced the text out so it wasn’t so overcrowded and could be read a bit easier. It became a standard rule of typewriting. Flash forward to the age of computers and advanced technology. We no longer need to include the double space after a period because computer text...