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by sliverstorm 3142 days ago
Movies have always been widescreen, in general. I believe VHS and broadcast was a detour. Do you remember all the "this has been modified to fit your screen"?

Since computer displays are advertised by their diagonal measure, for monitors with the same display area, a wide screen monitor will have a larger diagonal measure, thus sounding more impressive. -- Wikipedia

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4:3 came first. Televisions mimicked the movies. Then the movies went wide screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_ratio