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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

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