In the heyday of the mainframe, accessing a computer meant using a console or terminal with no choice but columns of text in a fixed-width font. Now that is the wave of the past, and every major website, and most minor websites run with a clue, use good proportional fonts. The last stronghold is the terminal, and normal terminal programs will not let you use a fixed-width font. This page tells HOWTO hack Ajaxterm to serve as a terminal with true proportional fonts.
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