Coding Standards and Line Length

I'll have to admit, I am from dinosaur age when it comes to computers. My first experince of programming BASIC in 1988 was on a VDU (was the term 'monitor' not that popular then?) which had 24 lines by 80 characters.

More than 20 years since that time, I find some people still having 80 character line limit in their coding standards, what a shame that technology has failed to convert the geeks :)