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And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people.

A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi.

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Anyone who was college educated in the 80s and 90s does this because that’s how we were taught to type and all of our papers had to be double-spaced.

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And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people. A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi.

Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.

Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.

If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.

(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)