Capital and small letters date back to ancient times. but these terms refer to something more modern…and literal.

Whether you’re firing off an all-caps text, editing an email draft or otherwise taking advantage of that “shift” button on your keyboard, you probably use the terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” most ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...