Well it's been 25 years since I learned to type & I learned with 2 spaces... The other thing that I believe has changed is that you don't for eg: Brisbane Qld 4101... It's just Brisbane 4101 as the postcode tells you it's Qld anyway... When I learned you had to put the state in...
On some of the typographical conventions - some trivia:
- A single space following the end of a sentence has always been used in newspaper and publishing typography. This was predominately to maximise space and reduce publishing costs (for example, consider how many sentences a novel has. In an average book the additional spaces can easily add several pages). Additionally, letterpress typesetting was used in these media and the extra spaces increased the amount of time taken to typeset a piece. Like the QWERTY keyboard layout, the double spacing at the conclusion of a sentence was used primarily as a reaction to the technical limitations of typewriters (older manual typewriters had a tendency to jam after a stop - the extra space avoided this) - rather than being a consideration to reading it was purely a technical workaround. As electric typewriters and then word processors have phased out manual typewriters, the convention has been brought into line with other typographic forms.
- The convention of including the state when writing addresses has not changed, accepted postal formatting should always be used.
- It is still usual practice to include sender address details at the top of correspondence unless a letterhead is used, in which case it is redundant.
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