We designers love our typography and laying out text so it is clear and legible. But did you know that it was 7th century Irish monks invented the spaces between words and exported it to the rest of Europe? Before that the words ran together continuously in what was known as "Scriptio continua".
Read more here … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_divider and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua
