Well, now that browsers and everything else will ignore the second space we can focus on more important things, like which one computers prefer. And computers p

Well, now that browsers and everything else will ignore the second space we can focus on more important things, like which one computers prefer. And computers probably prefer two spaces so they can tell acronyms and abbreviations from the ends of sentences. I'll never get used to typing that second space, but it beats a single newline or bad kerning or whatever the alternative is.