It is a light hearted article with a laugh of two, and I learnt that something I take for granted (spaces between words) was only just established by the 13th c

It is a light hearted article with a laugh of two, and I learnt that something I take for granted (spaces between words) was only just established by the 13th century. No wonder so many people were illiterate, their texts were illegible. (Ignoring the fact that those texts were probably quite hard to get a hold of in the first place...) It isn't canonical Hacker News, however. Everyone expects HN to trend towards Reddit, though, don't they?