WorldWideWeb, as it was.

[Epsilon]

The original text editors were limited to 80 columns because that was how many would fit on a 640 pixel wide display with letters seven pixels wide plus one more for a space between them, not any ideals of human interface design. 

...and this is also why my early fanfics look terrible in modern browsers because I had to put hard returns at the end of every line so they would be readable and these days they either end up with bizarre spaces or text scrolling to infinity.

For most of my work, I can't be bothered to reformat it.