And my FINAL link for the night before sacking out…
"Why did we abandon 4:3?" [16m] by Nostalgia Nerd is a good summary of the history of aspect ratios - and how we ended up basically settling on 16:9 as the current default. (For all media, really.)
@vampiress I do like that 16:10 is making a big comeback, though I still do like 4:3 more. 16:9 just takes up so much desk space to have monitors with decent vertical size/resolution....
I still find it crazy though how "sold" people were on terms like "full HD!" on PC monitors, as if it was some sort of upgrade, when 1080p60 was like half the resolution and half the refresh rate of what decent CRTs were running by the 2000s...