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. I won't dispute that some pages are so poorly designed they're better with CSS than without (and it is a case of poor design, how do you think visually impaired people using text-to-speech to navigate experience it?) but if the reason is that the lines are uncomfortably long for the width all you have to do is make the window narrower or turn up the zoom/font size.
The rightmost window in Dartz's image has some bits running together in the longer posts, but from what I can see of it that's probably due to some kind of wonky conversion in the retro-rendering engine not recognizing line breaks properly, since gaps in text without a specific tag are ignored in the basic HTML it's meant to showcase. I still have <p> and <br> as ingrained reflexive keyboard combinations from manually inserting them in prose text files back in the day...
The rightmost window in Dartz's image has some bits running together in the longer posts, but from what I can see of it that's probably due to some kind of wonky conversion in the retro-rendering engine not recognizing line breaks properly, since gaps in text without a specific tag are ignored in the basic HTML it's meant to showcase. I still have <p> and <br> as ingrained reflexive keyboard combinations from manually inserting them in prose text files back in the day...
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus