Thread: The Atlantic: Ebooks Are an Abomination
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Old 09-23-2021, 06:47 PM   #134
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
I never understood why CRTs and 30 years later Web "pages" were not mostly page orientated and copied the scrolling behaviour of the printing terminal, based on the 1928 teletype invention.
Because most people like an opportunity to repaginate the material at will, to fit a paragraph or a figure on one screen.
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