Turns out some of the typing practices in touch typing manuals make for great mini Twitter-sized stories:
Oooh, very cool. I was just looking at that phrase and surprised that it isn't much older.
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It feels like old typesetting, but it really came around when typewriters did.
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Ok I found a contest from 1854 (it also included a parts-of-speech requirement). Here's the results: https://books.google.com/books?id=kAsbAAAAYAAJ&dq=sentence%20letters%20alphabet%20%22merry's%20museum%22&pg=PA314#v=onepage&q=sentence%20letters%20alphabet%20%22merry's%20museum%22&f=false …
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