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2025-05-02 20:45:20 UTC

Diomidis Spinellis on Nostr: Shocking! When I said text should wrap at 72 columns, a student asked what a ...

Shocking! When I said text should wrap at 72 columns, a student asked what a “column” is. With punched cards and fixed-width font line / dot matrix printers fading into history, the idea of a text column doesn't seem to be obvious anymore.