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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 3 months ago

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