When did the tradition of double spacing between sentences fall from favor?

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It’s not technically right or wrong; it’s simply a style which some people and publications follow and some don’t. A publication I once worked for used it for years and then dropped it. Social media and Internet writing has changed many old grammatical rules—in my opinion as a writer, some for the better and some for the worse.

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