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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)
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[โ€“] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 weeks ago

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