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On 27/02/2025 15:47, David Brown wrote:
> 
> Newspaper columns are often much shorter - 30 to 40 characters.  So why 
> is that?

Because newspapers are basically in portrait format, so long thin 
columns fit well.

Computer terminals, back in the day, were basically square, so 80 
columns was often a hard limit.

Now you have larger landscape screens, with windows that can be 
stretched as wide as you like.