[mhurron]

It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95.

Actually, not it's not, little punks making me feel old, get off my lawn.

[fredley]

Asker of the question here, you are indeed spot on, Windows 95 was the first OS I used!

The train of reasoning here reminds me of another story (which I think has been on HN before): Why is a space shuttle engine 4' 8.5" wide?

http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

[slavik81]

Snopes suggests that story is a little inaccurate: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

[rayiner]

Because an Emacs window split into two 80x25 frames fits perfectly on a 13" Macbook Air. ;)

[drinchev]

Hey.. I still remember my first programming experience with Turbo Pascal running with MS-DOS 5 and I didn't know how this 80 characters per line popped up in history. I remember there was something like .. "MODE CON..." that I could change the chars, but I didn't know why and how the defaults were settled everywhere the same. Kudos for the OP asking this question.

[onmydesk]

> It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95.

I don't know why they stuck with it!

C64s and amigas.. when computers were cool before microsoft ruined it! Now we've been saved by apple, hurah

[jokoon]

> get off my lawn

no