"The case of capital letters was always kept above that of the smaller ones—hence, uppercase and lower case," Drogin added. A digitized archived version of the 1825 book " Typographia ...

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 ...

Well, now for another mind-melter ― there’s a very good reason why we call uppercase and lowercase letters what we do, and it’s because of the original printing presses.