Some thoughts here in no particular order. Some of the earliest writings were no doubt on a scroll, reading from left to right but in a vertical format. This perhaps influenced the cocnept of paper size. I imagine the first attempts at book binding likewise influenced standard paper size. A book that is a little taller than it is wide is sturdier for carrying arond.
Then you have the modern age where no one reads books anymore. Still most languages, though not all, read from left to right. This one would think would influence the horizontal screen length.
Then there is the porportions of a television screen which have always been horizontally oriented to accomodate the images shown on them that were shot on film which likewise, usually has a horizontal orientation to it. People became accustom to the size of television screens and it probably seemed like a logical conclusion to many of the first manufacturers of monitors to use that horizontal orientation. And I'm assuming that some of the first monitor manufacturers were also making televisions. Easier to standardize the whole production line.
In the end it doesn't matter to me because the boss can't use a computer for shit and does everyting on a typewriter for his trusty Office Manager to retype in Word.
I personally, at this point, would just be happy to have a monitor or any size and shpe who's screen doesn't perodically take on a sickly yellowish hue.
And yeah, it's a slow day.
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