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[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

I've heard it's because old screens were like 60 character wide

[-] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 months ago

Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.

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