StackExchange thinks it is because our two eyes are in a horizontal row instead of a vertical row and therefore there is more horizontal space to see. I remember having a 1990s college typography class in which the teacher asserted that the landscape orientation stemmed from early uses of the computer being spreadsheet based and a student piped up and challenged her and suggested that really the computer monitor orientations just parroted that of the television. They were both wrong! Ha!
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