This is becoming a fun #mystery. The answer is probably something silly, but I haven't found it, yet. Score:
- Google books: just some programming books that seem to have this boilerplate somewhere in them
- Oldest search result: This site from 2003 (I am thinking it is not the original source)
- A dozen or so academic databases (OneFile Complete, Academic Search Plus, etc.) through my university library: Nothing (I searched Vokalia and Consonantia in whatever full-text option they had) (edit; spelled consonantia wrong at first, but I'm pretty sure I got it right in the searches... probably)- The complete works of Oscar Wilde: Surprisingly, nothing. This is, of course, just one book and it might not have a whimsical thing he wrote one time, but I don't know how I'd find something like that.
It looks like, by about 2009, there was a WordPress theme with this filler text in it. The 2003 result might be some leftover WP content, too, AFAIK.
Maybe some web developer with a streak of e.e.cummings and Lewis Carroll just put their own delightful little vignette into their work?
I'm probably missing a really obvious place to look (as is my wont), but right now I got nothin'.
#interesting #unexpected #webdev