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A Guessing Game(lemmy.zip)

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Gutek8134@lemmy.world
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I’ve heard it’s because old screens were like 60 character wide

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

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